Genetics of asthma and allergy: What have we learned?

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 439-446

  Meyers, Deborah A ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; asthma genetics; genetics; genome wide association study; genomics; IgE

Indexed keywords

ADAM PROTEIN; ALPHA 1B ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTEROID; DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASE; HLA DQ ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 6; MACROPHAGE ELASTASE; PRION PROTEIN; PROTEIN PATCHED 1; RAD50 PROTEIN; SEROTONIN 4 RECEPTOR; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TENSIN; THROMBOSPONDIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA RECEPTOR;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ASIAN; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME 20P; CHROMOSOME 5Q; CHROMOSOME 6; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA SEQUENCE; EOSINOPHIL; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LUNG FUNCTION; PHARMACOGENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ASTHMA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE;

ASTHMA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE;

EID: 77956361115     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2010.07.012     Document Type: Review

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