Exploring new pathways for the development of pharmacological agents and methods for disease intervention, this source includes chapters on genetic epidemiology, techniques in statistical analysis, and the use of animal models for the study of airway disease genetics presents the results of recent linkage and association studies and epigenetic and environmental influences, and considers their impact on the future management of asthma and COPD considers the development of proteomic strategies to possibly detect relevant proteins in disease development and progression weighs the possibility...