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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2018

Modeling Unobserved Heterogeneity in Susceptibility to Ambient Benzo[a]pyrene Concentration among Children with Allergic Asthma Using an Unsupervised Learning Algorithm.

Daniel Fernández, Radim J Sram, Miroslav Dostal, Anna Pastorkova, Hans Gmuender, Hyunok Choi

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  1. Genetic susceptibility to respiratory health effects from outdoor air pollution: a structured narrative review.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2026
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  2. Airborne Benzo[a]Pyrene may contribute to divergent Pheno-Endotypes in children.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2021
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Daniel FernándezResearch and Development Unit, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, Fundació Sant Joan de Déu, CIBERSAM, Dr. Antoni Pujadas, 42, Sant Boi de Llobregat, 08830 Barcelona, Spain. df.martinez@pssjd.org.
Radim J SramDepartment of Genetic Ecotoxicology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Vídeňská 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic. sram@biomed.cas.cz.
Miroslav DostalDepartment of Genetic Ecotoxicology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Vídeňská 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic. dostal.boleslav@gmail.com.
Anna PastorkovaDepartment of Genetic Ecotoxicology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Vídeňská 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic. PastorkovaA@seznam.cz.
Hans GmuenderGenedata AG, Margarethenstrasse 38, CH-4053 Basel, Switzerland. hans.gmuender@genedata.com.
Hyunok ChoiDepartments of Environmental Health Sciences, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics State University of New York at Albany School of Public Health, Rensselaer, NY 12144, USA. hchoi@albany.edu.

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Abstract

Current studies of gene × air pollution interaction typically seek to identify unknown heritability of common complex illnesses arising from variability in the host's susceptibility to environmental pollutants of interest. Accordingly, a single component generalized linear models are often used to model the risk posed by an environmental exposure variable of interest in relation to a priori determined DNA variants. However, reducing the phenotypic heterogeneity may further optimize such approach, primarily represented by the modeled DNA variants. Here, we reduce phenotypic heterogeneity of asthma severity, and also identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) associated with phenotype subgroups. Specifically, we first apply an unsupervised learning algorithm method and a non-parametric regression to find a biclustering structure of children according to their allergy and asthma severity. We then identify a set of SNPs most closely correlated with each sub-group. We subsequently fit a logistic regression model for each group against the healthy controls using benzo[

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Genetic Predisposition to DiseaseMultifactorial InheritanceAir PollutantsAir PollutionAlgorithmsAsthmaBenzo(a)pyreneCase-Control StudiesChildEnvironmental ExposureFemaleGene-Environment InteractionHumansMalePolymorphism, Single NucleotideStatistics as TopicAir PollutantsBenzo(a)pyreneair pollutionasthmagene-environment interactionpolycyclic aromatic hydrocarbonsingle nucleotide polymorphism

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PMCPMC5800205

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