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Genetic risk scores do not improve asthma prediction in childhood

  • F Nicole Dijk
  • , Charlotte Folkersma
  • , Olena Gruzieva
  • , Ashish Kumar
  • , Alet H Wijga
  • , Ulrike Gehring
  • , Inger Kull
  • , Dirkje S Postma
  • , Judith M Vonk
  • , Erik Melén
  • , Gerard H Koppelman*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergology, Beatrix Children's Hospital, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
  • Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm County Council, 104 22 Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Public Health Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland; University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
  • National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands.
  • Sachs' Children and Youth Hospital, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Paediatric Pulmonology and Paediatric Allergology, Beatrix Children's Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands; University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), Groningen, The Netherlands.
  • University Medical Center Groningen
  • Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Sachs' Children and Youth Hospital, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergology, Beatrix Children's Hospital, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands. Electronic address: [email protected].

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)857-860.e7
JournalJournal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Volume144
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2019
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Asthma/epidemiology
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Cohort Studies
  • Disease Susceptibility
  • Dyspnea/drug therapy
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Male
  • Medical History Taking
  • Models, Theoretical
  • Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
  • Respiratory Sounds
  • Risk Factors
  • Steroids/therapeutic use

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