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ReviewPharmacogenomics2008

Race, ethnicity and social class and the complex etiologies of asthma.

Katherine A Drake, Joshua M Galanter, Esteban González Burchard

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Review in Pharmacogenomics, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Outcomes of the Navajo Community Asthma Program during the COVID-19 pandemic.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. Global · 2026
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  3. Leveraging artificial intelligence for the management of preschool wheeze: A narrative review.Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology · 2025
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  10. Leveraging genetic ancestry to study health disparities.American journal of physical anthropology · 2021
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  11. The Legal Weaponization of Racialized DNA: A New Genetic Politics of Affirmative Action.Georgetown journal of law & modern critical race perspectives · 2021
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  16. General Self-Efficacy and Mortality in the USA; Racial Differences.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Katherine A DrakeDepartment of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, UCSF/Lung Biology Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-2911, USA. katherine.drake@ucsf.edu
Joshua M Galanter
Esteban González Burchard

Funding

CLINICAL, PHARMACOLOGY, DRUG ACTION &PHARMACOKINETICST32GM007546 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Radojka Savic · 1985 to 2026
$8.9M
Case-control Association Studies and Genetic ConfoundingR01HL078885 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI BURCHARD, ESTEBAN GONZALEZ · 2005 to 2009
$1.9M
NHLBI NIH HHS HL078885NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL078885NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007546
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Asthma is a common but complex respiratory disease caused by the interaction of genetic and environmental factors. Significant racial and ethnic disparities in prevalence, mortality and drug response have been described. These disparities may be explained by racial and ethnic-specific variation in genetic, environmental, social and psychological risk factors. In addition, race, ethnicity and social class are important proxies for unmeasured factors that influence health outcomes. Herein, we review salient differences in the etiologies of asthma by race, ethnicity and social class, and argue for their continued use as variables in asthma research.

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Social ClassAnimalsAsthmaEthnicityGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseHumansRacial GroupsRisk Factors

Identifiers

PMID18384258
PMCPMC2746736

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