Assessing the validity of asthma associations for eight candidate genes and age at diagnosis effects.

Before the advent of genome-wide association studies (GWAS), ADAM33, ADRB2, CD14, MS4A2 (alias FCER1B), IL13, IL4, IL4R, and TNF constituted the most replicated non-HLA candidate genes with asthma and related traits. However, except for the IL13-IL4 region, none of these genes have been found in clo...

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Main Authors: María Pino-Yanes, Almudena Corrales, José Cumplido, Paloma Poza, Inmaculada Sánchez-Machín, Anselmo Sánchez-Palacios, Javier Figueroa, Orlando Acosta-Fernández, Nisa Buset, José Carlos García-Robaina, Mariano Hernández, Jesús Villar, Teresa Carrillo, Carlos Flores
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3767824?pdf=render