Ericksen MB

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus

observational 2015

N-acetyltransferase 1 polymorphism increases cotinine levels in Caucasian children exposed to secondhand smoke: the CCAAPS birth cohort

The pharmacogenomics journal ·doi:10.1038/tpj.2014.44

Cotinine is a proxy for secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure. Genetic variation along nicotine and cotinine metabolic pathways may alter the internal cotinine dose, leading to misinterpretations of exposure-health outcome associations. Caucasian…

other 2011

Identification of KIF3A as a novel candidate gene for childhood asthma using RNA expression and population allelic frequencies differences

PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023714

BACKGROUND: Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease with a strong genetic predisposition. A major challenge for candidate gene association studies in asthma is the selection of biologically relevant genes. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: …