Assessing the Validity of Asthma Associations for Eight Candidate Genes and Age at Diagnosis Effects

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Pino Yanes, María ^a,b   Corrales, Almudena ^a,b   Cumplido, José ^c   Poza, Paloma ^d   Sánchez Machín, Inmaculada ^d   Sánchez Palacios, Anselmo ^e   Figueroa, Javier ^e   Acosta Fernández, Orlando ^f   Buset, Nisa ^c   García Robaina, José Carlos ^b   Hernández, Mariano ^g   Villar, Jesús ^a,c,h   Carrillo, Teresa ^c   Flores, Carlos ^a,b,g  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO NUESTRA SEÑORA DE CANDELARIA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GRAN CANARIA DR NEGRÍN   (Spain)

^d Hospital de Ofra   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO INSULAR DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^f HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^h ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CD14 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 4 RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ADAM33 GENE; ADRB2 GENE; AGE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; CD14 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IL13 GENE; IL4 GENE; IL4R GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MS4A2 GENE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TNF GENE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADAM PROTEINS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELES; ASTHMA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-4 RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, IGE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883651546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073157     Document Type: Article

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