title: Advances in adult asthma diagnosis and treatment in 2012: potential therapeutics and gene-environment interactions.
abstract: In the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in 2012, research reports related to asthma in adults clustered around mechanisms of disease, with a special focus on their potential for informing new therapies. There was also consideration of the effect of the environment on health from pollution, climate change, and epigenetic influences, underlining the importance of understanding gene-environment interactions in the pathogenesis of asthma and response to treatment.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. apter@mail.med.upenn.edu
authors.forename: Andrea J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Apter
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001249:Asthma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics / Q000628:therapy*; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D059647:Gene-Environment Interaction; D006801:Humans