Genome-wide study reveals 3 new susceptibility loci for adult asthma in Japanese population

Sunday, July 31, 2011 - 12:30 in Biology & Nature

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Genomic Medicine (CGM), together with colleagues at Kyoto University, Tsukuba University, Harvard University, and other medical institutions have identified three new loci associated with susceptibility to adult asthma in the Japanese population. The findings appear in Nature Genetics and derive from a genome-wide study of 4836 Japanese individuals.

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