Finding the genetic causes of asthma: the Australian Asthma Genetics Consortium (AAGC)

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/613627

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Asthma is a major burden on individuals and health systems. Despite many decades of research, no major effective new treatments for asthma have emerged recently. We will establish a large international consortium to systematically test nearly all known human genes to identify those that influence asthma susceptibility. We expect to identify pathways not previously implicated in asthma and so lead to a potential breakthrough in the development of more effective treatments.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2010

End Date: 01-01-2013

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $1,697,639.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Quantitative Genetics (incl. Disease and Trait Mapping Genetics)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Airway diseases | Asthma | Atopy | Burden of genetic disease in population | Complex genetic disease | Determining genetic susceptibility to disease | Gene mapping | Genetic epidemiology | Genetic predisposition

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