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Asthma is an inflammatory airways disease encompassing multiple phenotypes and endotypes. Several studies suggested gene expression in nasal epithelium to serve as a proxy for bronchial epithelium, being a non-invasive approach to investigate lung diseases. We hypothesised that molecular differences in upper airway epithelium reflect asthma-associated differences in the lower airways and are associated with clinical expression of asthma.
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