A review of metabolomics approaches and their application in identifying causal pathways of childhood asthma

As asthma is a disease that results from host x environment interactions, an approach which allows assessment of the impact of the environment on the host is needed to understand disease. Metabolomics has appealing potential as an application to study pathways to childhood asthma development. The objective of this review is to provide an overview of metabolomics methods, and their application to understanding host x environment pathways in asthma development. We reviewed recent literature on advances in metabolomics and their application to study pathways to childhood asthma development.

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