Your browser version may not work well with NCBI's Web applications. More information here...
1: Chest. 2002 Mar;121(3 Suppl):7S-13S.
Related Articles, Links
Click here to read
Asthma genetics.

Cookson WO.

Department of Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. wocc@ox.ac.uk

Asthma is the most common chronic childhood disease in developed nations and is a complex disease that has high social and economic costs. Asthma and its associated intermediate phenotypes are under a substantial degree of genetic control. Identifying the genes underlying asthma offers a means of better understanding its pathogenesis, with the promise of improving preventive strategies, diagnostic tools, and therapies. A number of chromosomal regions containing genes influencing asthma and atopy have been identified consistently by different groups, and a role for several candidate genes has been established.

Publication Types:
PMID: 11893653 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]