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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2014

Elucidation of pathways driving asthma pathogenesis: development of a systems-level analytic strategy.

Michael L Walker, Kathryn E Holt, Gary P Anderson, Shu Mei Teo, Peter D Sly, Patrick G Holt, Michael Inouye

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Genetic Susceptibility to Acute Viral Bronchiolitis.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2025
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  2. Advancing Exposomic Research in Prenatal Respiratory Disease Programming.Immunology and allergy clinics of North America · 2023
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  4. Journal of biosciences · 2022
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  6. Future Research Directions in Asthma. An NHLBI Working Group Report.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2015
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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Michael L WalkerMedical Systems Biology, Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne , Parkville, VIC , Australia.
Kathryn E HoltDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, The University of Melbourne , Melbourne, VIC , Australia ; Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia , West Perth, WA , Australia.
Gary P AndersonDepartment of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Lung Health Research Centre, The University of Melbourne , Melbourne, VIC , Australia.
Shu Mei TeoMedical Systems Biology, Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne , Parkville, VIC , Australia ; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, The University of Melbourne , Melbourne, VIC , Australia.
Peter D SlyQueensland Children's Medical Research Institute, The University of Queensland , Brisbane, QLD , Australia.
Patrick G HoltTelethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia , West Perth, WA , Australia ; Queensland Children's Medical Research Institute, The University of Queensland , Brisbane, QLD , Australia.
Michael InouyeMedical Systems Biology, Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne , Parkville, VIC , Australia ; Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia , West Perth, WA , Australia ; Medical Systems Biology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne , Parkville, VIC , Australia.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Asthma is a genetically complex, chronic lung disease defined clinically as episodic airflow limitation and breathlessness that is at least partially reversible, either spontaneously or in response to therapy. Whereas asthma was rare in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the marked increase in its incidence and prevalence since the 1960s points to substantial gene × environment interactions occurring over a period of years, but these interactions are very poorly understood (1-6). It is widely believed that the majority of asthma begins during childhood and manifests first as intermittent wheeze. However, wheeze is also very common in infancy and only a subset of wheezy children progress to persistent asthma for reasons that are largely obscure. Here, we review the current literature regarding causal pathways leading to early asthma development and chronicity. Given the complex interactions of many risk factors over time eventually leading to apparently multiple asthma phenotypes, we suggest that deeply phenotyped cohort studies combined with sophisticated network models will be required to derive the next generation of biological and clinical insights in asthma pathogenesis.

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allergyasthmabirth cohortchildhoodepidemiologyimmune functionsystems biologyvirus infection

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PMID25295037
PMCPMC4172064

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