Leveraging gene-environment interactions and endotypes for asthma gene discovery

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 667-679

  Bønnelykke, Klaus ^a   Ober, Carole ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

17q asthma locus; Asthma; CDHR3; gene environment interactions; genome wide association study; rhinovirus

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 13;

ASTHMA; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; REVIEW; RHINOVIRUS; RHINOVIRUS INFECTION; WHEEZING; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALS; ASTHMA; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84973575283     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: 10976825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2016.01.006     Document Type: Review

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