Asthma is a complex disease with sex-specific differences in prevalence. Candidate gene
studies have suggested that genotype-by-sex interaction effects on asthma risk exist, but this�…

Background Atopic sensitization (ie, atopy) is the most commonly reported risk factor for
asthma. Recent studies have begun to suggest that atopy, as conventionally defined, might�…

Prostate cancer is the most frequent and second most lethal cancer in men in the United
States. Innate immunity and inflammation may increase the risk of prostate cancer. To�…

Although brand loyalty has been cited by practitioners as one of the most important
sponsorship objectives, there is little empirical research on the effect that sponsorship has�…

This study relates consumer ethics and attitudes to the recent controversy over file-sharing
Web sites such as Napster, Morpheus, and Kazaa. Data were collected from college�…

Purpose Maximum two-dimensional (2D) diameter has been used to define giant pituitary
adenoma (GPA) surgery outcomes as has volume using an ellipsoid approximation of�…

To characterize the extent and impact of ancestry-related biases in precision genomic
medicine, we use 642 whole-genome sequences from the Consortium on Asthma among�…

Common variants at many loci have been robustly associated with asthma but explain little
of the overall genetic risk. Here we investigate the role of rare (< 1%) and low-frequency (1�…

Introduction Prenatal and early‐life dog exposure has been linked to reduced childhood
allergy and asthma. A potential mechanism includes altered early immune development in�…

Abstract Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is one of the most common cancer predisposing
syndromes with an incidence of 1 in 3,500 worldwide. Certain neoplasms or malignancies�…