Genetic risks and childhood-onset asthma

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 266-270

  Cookson, William ^a   Moffatt, Miriam ^a   Strachan, David P ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asthma; childhood; familial; genetic; genome wide association; population; risk

Indexed keywords

ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT;

ASTHMA; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AGE OF ONSET; ASTHMA; CHILD; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79961012876     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: 10976825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2011.06.026     Document Type: Review

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