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ReviewPulmonary therapy

Identification of Asthma Subtypes Using Clustering Methodologies.

Matea Deliu, Matthew Sperrin, Danielle Belgrave, Adnan Custovic

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Review in Pulmonary therapy. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Features of asthma which provide meaningful insights for understanding the disease heterogeneity.Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2018
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  3. MicroRNA clustering in pediatric asthma reveals differential corticosteroid responsiveness.Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology · 2026
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  4. Human lungs fluid mechanics: an overview of current modelling techniques.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2026
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  11. Subtypes of Asthma and Cold Weather-Related Respiratory Symptoms.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  12. Asthma clustering methods: a literature-informed application to the children's health study data.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2022
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  14. Genetics of Asthma and Allergic Diseases.Handbook of experimental pharmacology · 2022
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  17. Genetic Epidemiology of Complex Phenotypes.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Matea DeliuCentre for Health Informatics, Institute of Population Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Matthew SperrinCentre for Health Informatics, Institute of Population Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Danielle BelgraveDepartment of Paediatrics, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Adnan CustovicDepartment of Paediatrics, Imperial College London, London, UK.

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_PC_13042Medical Research Council MR/K002449/1Medical Research Council MR/K002449/2Medical Research Council MR/K006665/1Medical Research Council MR/M015181/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Asthma is a heterogeneous disease comprising a number of subtypes which may be caused by different pathophysiologic mechanisms (sometimes referred to as endotypes) but may share similar observed characteristics (phenotypes). The use of unsupervised clustering in adult and paediatric populations has identified subtypes of asthma based on observable characteristics such as symptoms, lung function, atopy, eosinophilia, obesity, and age of onset. Here we describe different clustering methods and demonstrate their contributions to our understanding of the spectrum of asthma syndrome. Precise identification of asthma subtypes and their pathophysiological mechanisms may lead to stratification of patients, thus enabling more precise therapeutic and prevention approaches.

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Adult asthmaAsthmaClusteringEndotypesPaediatric asthmaPhenotypes

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PMID27512723
PMCPMC4959136

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