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Rationale and design of the multiethnic Pharmacogenomics in Childhood Asthma consortium.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

International collaboration is needed to enable large-scale pharmacogenomics studies in childhood asthma. Here, we describe the design of the Pharmacogenomics in Childhood Asthma (PiCA) consortium.

Materials & methods

Investigators of each study participating in PiCA provided data on the study characteristics by answering an online questionnaire.

Results

A total of 21 studies, including 14,227 children/young persons (58% male), from 12 different countries are currently enrolled in the PiCA consortium. Fifty six percent of the patients are Caucasians. In total, 7619 were inhaled corticosteroid users. Among patients from 13 studies with available data on asthma exacerbations, a third reported exacerbations despite inhaled corticosteroid use. In the future pharmacogenomics studies within the consortium, the pharmacogenomics analyses will be performed separately in each center and the results will be meta-analyzed.

Conclusion

PiCA is a valuable platform to perform pharmacogenetics studies within a multiethnic pediatric asthma population.

SUBMITTER: Farzan N

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5967359 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Rationale and design of the multiethnic Pharmacogenomics in Childhood Asthma consortium.

Farzan Niloufar N Vijverberg Susanne J SJ Andiappan Anand K AK Arianto Lambang L Berce Vojko V Blanca-López Natalia N Bisgaard Hans H Bønnelykke Klaus K Burchard Esteban G EG Campo Paloma P Canino Glorisa G Carleton Bruce B Celedón Juan C JC Chew Fook Tim FT Chiang Wen Chin WC Cloutier Michelle M MM Daley Denis D Den Dekker Herman T HT Dijk F Nicole FN Duijts Liesbeth L Flores Carlos C Forno Erick E Hawcutt Daniel B DB Hernandez-Pacheco Natalia N de Jongste Johan C JC Kabesch Michael M Koppelman Gerard H GH Manolopoulos Vangelis G VG Melén Erik E Mukhopadhyay Somnath S Nilsson Sara S Palmer Colin N CN Pino-Yanes Maria M Pirmohamed Munir M Potočnik Uros U Raaijmakers Jan A JA Repnik Katja K Schieck Maximilian M Sio Yang Yie YY Smyth Rosalind L RL Szalai Csaba C Tantisira Kelan G KG Turner Steve S van der Schee Marc P MP Verhamme Katia M KM Maitland-van der Zee Anke H AH

Pharmacogenomics 20170622 10

<h4>Aim</h4>International collaboration is needed to enable large-scale pharmacogenomics studies in childhood asthma. Here, we describe the design of the Pharmacogenomics in Childhood Asthma (PiCA) consortium.<h4>Materials & methods</h4>Investigators of each study participating in PiCA provided data on the study characteristics by answering an online questionnaire.<h4>Results</h4>A total of 21 studies, including 14,227 children/young persons (58% male), from 12 different countries are currently ...[more]

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Rationale and design of the multiethnic Pharmacogenomics in Childhood Asthma consortium.

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