The Genetics of Asthma

This up-to-date resource offers a comprehensive overview of the genetic bases of asthma - examining key pathways, animal models, molecular and genetic techniques, and human genetic studies and furnishing the latest results on genetic analyses involving atopy, human immunoglobulin E (IgE), bronchial hyperresponsiveness, and asthma. Discussing fundamental issues essential in the development of asthma, The Genetics of Asthma describes basic mechanisms that are altered by genetic factors...provides state-of-the-art concepts on the molecular basis of asthma...presents new insights based on traditional animal models and genetically altered mice...explains techniques for conducting genetic studies and statistical approaches for genetic analysis...supplies a critical assessment of issues associated with phenotyping...gives results of human studies on the genetics of asthma...and much more. With over 1900 bibliographic citations and more than 100 explanatory tables, drawings, and photographs, The Genetics of Asthma is an ideal reference for pulmonologists, clinical immunologists, and allergists, physiologists, geneticists, lung biologists, epidemiologists, biochemists, molecular biologists, internists, pediatricians, and graduate and medical school students in these disciplines.