Topics and Expertise: SAGE

Asthma Collaboratory study finds most asthma research may not apply to African American children

Thu May 12, 2016
White and Burchard
Noah Berger

Marquitta White (left), MS, PhD, and Esteban Burchard, MD, MPH. Photo by Noah Berger

Results from the largest single study of the genetic and environmental causes of asthma in African American children suggest that only a tiny fraction of known genetic risk factors for the disease apply to this population.