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SEVERE ASTHMA SERIES
Gene-Environment interactions in asthma: what we know today?
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7th Pneumonology Dept. and Asthma Centre, SOTIRIA” Hospital for Chest Diseases, Athens, Greece
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Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom
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Human Development and Health, Faculty of Medicine University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom
Corresponding author
Eleftherios Zervas
7th Pneumonology Dept. and Asthma Centre, “SOTIRIA” Hospital for Chest Diseases, Mesogion Ave. 152, 11527 Athens, Greece
7th Pneumonology Dept. and Asthma Centre, “SOTIRIA” Hospital for Chest Diseases, Mesogion Ave. 152, 11527 Athens, Greece
Pneumon 2012;25(1):83–98
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