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. 2015 Apr;135(4):1083-1085.e3.
doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2014.10.035. Epub 2014 Dec 6.

Maternal selenium status in pregnancy, offspring glutathione peroxidase 4 genotype, and childhood asthma

Seif O Shaheen  1 , Clare M Rutterford  2 , Sarah J Lewis  3 , Susan M Ring  4 , John W Holloway  5 , Jean Golding  3 , A John Henderson  3
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Maternal selenium status in pregnancy, offspring glutathione peroxidase 4 genotype, and childhood asthma

Seif O Shaheen et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2015 Apr.
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Odds ratio for asthma, comparing children of mothers in the bottom quintile for blood selenium concentration with children of mothers in the top 4 quintiles, and stratifying by child GPX4 rs713041 genotype.
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