Genome-wide association analysis identifies PDE4D as an asthma-susceptibility gene.

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Published in Am J Hum Genet on May 07, 2009

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Blanca E Himes1, Gary M Hunninghake, James W Baurley, Nicholas M Rafaels, Patrick Sleiman, David P Strachan, Jemma B Wilk, Saffron A G Willis-Owen, Barbara Klanderman, Jessica Lasky-Su, Ross Lazarus, Amy J Murphy, Manuel E Soto-Quiros, Lydiana Avila, Terri Beaty, Rasika A Mathias, Ingo Ruczinski, Kathleen C Barnes, Juan C Celedón, William O C Cookson, W James Gauderman, Frank D Gilliland, Hakon Hakonarson, Christoph Lange, Miriam F Moffatt, George T O'Connor, Benjamin A Raby, Edwin K Silverman, Scott T Weiss

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1: Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA. blanca_himes@hms.harvard.edu

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