Differences in asthma genetics between Chinese and other populations

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 42-48

  Leung, Ting F ^a   Ko, Fanny W S ^a   Sy, Hing Y ^a   Tsui, Stephen K W ^a   Wong, Gary W K ^a,b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Asthma; genetics; genome wide association study; next generation sequencing; susceptibility

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHINA; CHINESE; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ASTHMA; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GWAS; MAF; MINOR ALLELE FREQUENCY; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SNP; SUSCEPTIBILITY;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HAPLOTYPES; HONG KONG; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK;

EID: 84891739612     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: 10976825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2013.09.018     Document Type: Article

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