Background In a rapidly urbanizing world, many people have little contact with natural
environments, which may affect health and well-being. Existing reviews generally conclude that …

Asthma, rhinitis, and eczema are complex diseases with multiple genetic and environmental
factors interlinked through IgE-associated and non–IgE-associated mechanisms. …

Me DALL (Mechanisms of the Development of ALL ergy; EU FP 7‐ CP ‐ IP ; Project No:
261357; 2010–2015) has proposed an innovative approach to develop early indicators for the …

Objective To assess the separate and combined associations of maternal pre‐pregnancy
body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain with the risks of pregnancy complications …

Importance The causal direction and magnitude of the association between telomere length
and incidence of cancer and non-neoplastic diseases is uncertain owing to the susceptibility …

We examined common variation in asthma risk by conducting a meta-analysis of worldwide
asthma genome-wide association studies (23,948 asthma cases, 118,538 controls) of …

Birth weight (BW) has been shown to be influenced by both fetal and maternal factors and in
observational studies is reproducibly associated with future risk of adult metabolic diseases …

Birth weight variation is influenced by fetal and maternal genetic and non-genetic factors,
and has been reproducibly associated with future cardio-metabolic health outcomes. In …

Background Maternal obesity and excessive gestational weight gain may have persistent
effects on offspring fat development. However, it remains unclear whether these effects differ …

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a commonly occurring chronic skin disease with high heritability.
Apart from filaggrin (FLG), the genes influencing atopic dermatitis are largely unknown. We …