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- Title
Diversity and the Splice of Life: Mapping the 17q12-21.1 Locus for Variants Associated with Early-Onset Asthma in African American Individuals.
- Authors
Raby, Benjamin A.; Weiss, Scott T.
- Abstract
An editorial is presented which argues on Mapping the 17q12–21.1 Locus for Variants Associated with Early-Onset Asthma in African American Individuals, which includes the genome-wide association study (GWAS) ushered in an era of disease gene discovery at an unprecedented pace and scale, touching every field in medicine and the most consistently reproducible locus for childhood asthma, conferring risk in populations of varying geographic and ethnic origin.
- Subjects
ASTHMA; LOCUS in human genetics; AFRICAN Americans; ETHNOLOGICAL archives; RISK; DISEASE susceptibility; RESEARCH funding
- Publication
American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine, 2021, Vol 203, Issue 4, p401
- ISSN
1073-449X
- Publication type
editorial
- DOI
10.1164/rccm.202010-3802ED