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As the syndrome of asthma reflects a collection of disease subgroups which may involve different causal pathways (e.g. viral inflammation, house dust mite allergen-induced airway disease), the use of an outcome measure of ‘wheeze’ or ‘asthma’ may be too non-specific for aetiological studies.