For health care providers

We are very excited about your interest in PRIMERO! The purpose of this study is to identify viral, genetic, and airway transcriptomic determinants of respiratory diseases of the first years of life to better understand the relationship between these diseases and the development of asthma in childhood. Our longitudinal birth cohort [1] is the largest prospective study of infants, [2] will provide novel and critical information on genetic/viral risk factors for severe respiratory disease, and [3] will identify airway endotypes that infants with High risk for asthma occurs at birth and after a respiratory illness, but before asthma onset.