Candidate genes and a genome-wide search in Italian families with atopic asthmatic children

Clinical and Experimental Allergy, Supplement

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 27-30

  Malerba, G ^b   Trabetti, E ^b   Patuzzo, C ^b   Lauciello, M C ^b   Galavotti, R ^b   Pescollderungg, L ^b   Boner, A L ^b   Pignatti, P F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Asthma; Atopy; Bronchial hyperresponsiveness; Chromosome; Gene; Genetic markers; IgE; Linkage; Mutations; Skin prick test

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 4 RECEPTOR; LYMPHOTOXIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASTHMA; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ITALY; LINKAGE (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, IGE; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0033456251     PISSN: 09602178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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