Asthma genetics 2006: the long and winding road to gene discovery

C Ober, S Hoffjan - Genes & Immunity, 2006 - nature.com
Asthma and atopy are complex phenotypes that are influenced by both genetic and
environmental factors. A review of nearly 500 papers on disease association studies …

Update on glucocorticoid action and resistance

K Ito, KF Chung, IM Adcock - Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2006 - Elsevier
Extensive development of inhaled and oral glucocorticoids has resulted in highly potent
molecules that have been optimized to target activity to the lung and minimize systemic …

Asthma in hispanics

GM Hunninghake, ST Weiss… - American Journal of …, 2006 - atsjournals.org
Hispanic individuals trace their ancestry to countries that were previously under Spanish
rule, including Mexico, large parts of Central and South America, and some Caribbean …

Airway remodeling and airway smooth muscle in asthma

M Munakata - Allergology International, 2006 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Airway remodeling in asthma has been recognized as structural changes of airways such as
smooth muscle hypertrophy (an increase in size of airway smooth muscle cells) and …

The genetic basis of ankylosing spondylitis

JD Reveille - Current opinion in rheumatology, 2006 - journals.lww.com
Nearly half of the susceptibility to ankylosing spondylitis is provided by major
histocompatibility complex genes. Non-major histocompatibility complex genes, most …

Genetic polymorphisms in arginase I and II and childhood asthma and atopy

H Li, I Romieu, JJ Sienra-Monge… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2006 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: A recent microarray study implicated arginase I (ARG1) and arginase II
(ARG2) in mouse allergic asthma models and human asthma. OBJECTIVES: To examine …

The role of polymorphisms in ADAM33, a disintegrin and metalloprotease 33, in childhood asthma and lung function in two German populations

M Schedel, M Depner, C Schoen, SK Weiland… - Respiratory …, 2006 - Springer
Background ADAM33, the first asthma candidate gene identified by positional cloning, may
be associated with childhood asthma, lung function decline and bronchial …

Structure-function relationships in the neuropeptide S receptor: molecular consequences of the asthma-associated mutation N107I

V Bernier, R Stocco, MJ Bogusky, JG Joyce… - Journal of Biological …, 2006 - ASBMB
Neuropeptide S (NPS) and its receptor (NPSR) are thought to have a role in asthma
pathogenesis; a number of single nucleotide polymorphisms within NPSR have been shown …

Gene–Environment Interaction in Asthma

GH Koppelman, DS Postma - Genetics of Asthma and Chronic …, 2006 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Asthma is a genetically complex disease, caused by multiple genes and mul-tiple
environmental factors that may interact. Epidemiological studies haveprovided suggestive …

Fine mapping and positional candidate studies on chromosome 5p13 identify multiple asthma susceptibility loci

T Kurz, S Hoffjan, MG Hayes, D Schneider… - Journal of allergy and …, 2006 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Genome-wide linkage scans to identify asthma susceptibility loci have
revealed many linked regions, including a broad region on chromosome 5p. OBJECTIVE: To …