Corinne Keet, Scott H Sicherer, Supinda Bunyavanich, Cynthia Visness, Patricia C Fulkerson, Alkis Togias, Wendy Davidson, Susan Perry, Sanaz Hamrah, Agustin Calatroni, Katina Robinson, Lars Dunaway, Carla M Davis, Sara Anvari, Susan M Leong-Kee, Gurjit Khurana Hershey, Emily DeFranco, Ashley Devonshire, Haejin Kim, Christine Joseph, Brent Davidson, Noel K Strong, Angela J Tsuang, Marion Groetch, Julie Wang, Jennifer Dantzer, Kim Mudd, Abimbola Aina, Wayne Shreffler, Qian Yuan, Virginia Simmons, Donald Y M Leung, Jessica Hui-Beckman, Jania Arcia Ramos, Sharon Chinthrajah, Virginia Winn, Tina Sindher, Stacie M Jones, Nirvana A Manning, Amy M Scurlock, Edwin Kim, Alison Stuebe, James E Gern, Anne Marie Singh, Jennifer Krupp, Robert A Wood
BACKGROUND: Food allergy (FA) and atopic dermatitis (AD) are common conditions that often present in the first year of life. Identification of underlying mechanisms and environmental determinants of FA and AD is essential to develop and implement effective prevention and treatment strategies. Objectives: We sought to describe the design of the Systems Biology of Early Atopy (SunBEAm) birth cohort. METHODS: Funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and administered through the Consortium for Food Allergy Research (CoFAR), SunBEAm is a US population-based, multicenter birth cohort that enrolls pregnant mothers, fathers, and their newborns and follows them to 3 years...
August 2023: J Allergy Clin Immunol Glob