By correlating the identified DEGs with asthma-related SNPs extracted from the GWAS catalog, the study integrated genomic and transcriptomic information, ultimately focusing on four male-specific genes (FBXL7, ITPR3, and RAD51B from epithelial tissue and ALOX15 from blood) and one female-specific gene (HLA-DQA1 from epithelial tissue) (Gautam et al., 2019). Here, ALOX15 is linked to asthma.