Pooling Birth Cohorts in Allergy and Asthma: European Union-Funded Initiatives - A MeDALL, CHICOS, ENRIECO, and GA(2)LEN Joint Paper

0395389 - ÚEM 2014 RIV CH eng J - Journal Article
Bousquet, J. - Anto, J. - Sunyer, J. - Nieuwenhuijsen, N. - Vrijheid, M. - Keil, T. - Šrám, Radim … Total 184 authors
Pooling Birth Cohorts in Allergy and Asthma: European Union-Funded Initiatives - A MeDALL, CHICOS, ENRIECO, and GA(2)LEN Joint Paper.
International Archives of Allergy and Immunology. Roč. 161, č. 1 (2013), s. 1-10. ISSN 1018-2438. E-ISSN 1423-0097
Grant - others:EU FP6(XE) FOOD-CT-2004-506378
Institutional support: RVO:68378041
Keywords : Birth cohorts * asthma * allergy
Subject RIV: DN - Health Impact of the Environment Quality
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Long-term birth cohort studies are essential to understanding the life course and childhood predictors of allergy and the complex interplay between genes and the environment. Over 100 cohorts focusing on asthma and allergy have been initiated in the world over the past 30 years. Since 2004, several research initiatives funded under the EU Framework Program FP6-FP7 have attempted to identify and evaluate pooling data from existing European birth cohorts (GA(2)LEN; ENRIECO; CHICOS; MeDALL). The aim of this paper is to review current and past EU-funded projects in order to make a summary of their goals and achievements and to suggest future research needs of these European birth cohort networks.
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