They say their findings, published in the journal Nature Medicine, will help develop ways of preventing asthma.

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The findings were published Sunday in the journal Nature Medicine.

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The research is published in the journal Nature Medicine.

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It published its results not in a major scientific journal such as Nature or Science, but in an obscure online journal called e-biomed: The Journal of Regenerative Medicine, which many leading medical scientists don't read.

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The researchers, from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and Stanford University, published their results in the journal Nature Genetics.

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