• Mitochondrial genetic background plays a role in increasing risk to asthma 

      Zifa, E.; Daniil, Z.; Skoumi, E.; Stavrou, M.; Papadimitriou, K.; Terzenidou, M.; Kostikas, K.; Bagiatis, V.; Gourgoulianis, K. I.; Mamuris, Z. (2012)
      A number of studies suggest that mitochondrial dysfunction plays a role in the pathogenesis of asthma. To shed light for the first time on the role of the mitochondrial genome in the etiology of asthma we analyzed the ...