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Enhancing the understanding of asthma

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The chromatin signature of genomic enhancers in CD4+ T cells distinguishes asthmatic patients from healthy subjects.

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Figure 1: Epigenomic profiling of T cells indicates a different enhancer landscape in asthmatic patients than in healthy control subsets.

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  1. Golnaz Vahedi, Arianne C. Richard and John J. O'Shea are with the Molecular Immunology and Inflammation Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.,

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