Toll-like receptor 2 as a major gene for asthma in children of European farmers

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 482-488

  Eder, Waltraud ^a,b   Klimecki, Walt ^a   Yu, Lizhi ^a   Von Mutius, Erika ^b   Riedler, Josef ^c   Braun Fahrländer, Charlotte ^d   Nowak, Dennis ^e   Martinez, Fernando D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Children's Hospital Salzburg   (Austria)

^d SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asthma; Atopy; Children; Endotoxin; Farming; Gene environment interaction; TLR2; TLR4

Indexed keywords

TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ALLELE; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; ATOPY; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN SENSITIZATION;

EID: 1542721504     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2003.12.374     Document Type: Article

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