‘ This timely volume provides easy access to a thorough review of the field. It is suitable for a wide range of readers from those with a general scientific interest in the subject to the expert clinical or scientific geneticist. The order of the chapters has been carefully arranged to follow the sequence of events from immune sensitisation through the regulation of cytokine gene expression culminating with genetic influences on the pharmacology of asthma and atopy.
Problems associated with research in this subject area are honestly – if rather depressingly - laid bare early on. ... Each of these problems is analysed in turn with helpful discussion and frequent summaries to raise the readers’ optimism for the following chapters that address specific candidate loci.
This compilation is an extremely useful reference work on a subject that many non-expert readers find inaccessible.’
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