Heterogeneity in Asthma

Chapter 1 Introduction to asthma and phenotyping.

Chapter 2 Epidemiology of asthma: prevalence and burden of disease.

Chapter 3 Heterogeneity of asthma in society.

Chapter 4 Inhaled environmental allergens and toxicants as determinants of the asthma phenotype.

Chapter 5 Current clinical diagnostic tests for asthma.

Chapter 6 Management of Asthma: The Current US and European Guidelines.

Chapter 7 Community-based interventions in asthma.

Chapter 8 Heterogeneity of response to therapy.

Chapter 9 Introduction to genetics and genomics in asthma: genetics of asthma.

Chapter 10 Gene expression profiling in asthma.

Chapter 11 Asthma epigenetics.

Chapter 12 Overview.

Chapter 13 Metabolomics in Asthma

Chapter 14 Proteomic Analysis of the Asthmatic Airway

Chapter 15 Measurement of the innate immune response in the airway.

Chapter 16 Functional proteomics for the characterization of impaired cellular responses to glucocorticoids in asthma.

Chapter 17 Analysis and Predictive Modeling of Asthma Phenotypes

Chapter 18 The Role of Visual Analytics in Asthma Phenotyping and Biomarker Discovery

Chapter 19 Central nervous system influences in asthma.

Chapter 21 Conclusions and future directions.