CLC and asthma: Among the differentially co-expressed genes, eight were previously linked to asthma in genome- (MRPL14, ASB3, RHOBTB2) and epigenome-wide (CLC, EPS15, GPI, SSCRB4, STRN4) association studies and five were mentioned in the literature in the context of asthma (SLC19A1, MAEA, CLC, ATP1B1, and RECK).