Variation in the interleukin 4-receptor α gene confers susceptibility to asthma and atopy in ethnically diverse populations

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 517-526

  Ober, Carole ^a   Leavitt, Stephanie A ^a   Tsalenko, Anya ^a   Howard, Timothy D ^c   Hoki, Danessa M ^a   Daniel, Rajeev ^a   Newman, Dina L ^a   Wu, Xiaodong ^a   Parry, Rodney ^d   Lester, Lucille A ^b   Solway, Julian ^a   Blumenthal, Malcolm ^e   King, Richard A ^e   Xu, Jianfeng ^c   Meyers, Deborah A ^c   Bleecker, Eugene R ^c   Cox, Nancy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 4 RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033927663     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302781     Document Type: Article

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