Application of the asthma phenotype algorithm from the Severe Asthma Research Program to an urban population.

Identification and characterization of asthma phenotypes are challenging due to disease complexity and heterogeneity. The Severe Asthma Research Program (SARP) used unsupervised cluster analysis to define 5 phenotypically distinct asthma clusters that they replicated using 3 variables in a simplifie...

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Main Authors: Paru Patrawalla, Angeliki Kazeros, Linda Rogers, Yongzhao Shao, Mengling Liu, Maria-Elena Fernandez-Beros, Shulian Shang, Joan Reibman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3441500?pdf=render