Lack of association of CCR4 single nucleotide polymorphism with atopic dermatitis in Japanese patients

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 187-190

  Tsunemi, Yuichiro ^a   Sekiya, Takashi ^a   Saeki, Hidehisa ^a   Hirai, Koichi ^a   Ohta, Ken ^b   Nakamura, Koichiro ^c   Kakinuma, Takashi ^a   Fujita, Hideki ^a   Kagami, Shinji ^a   Asano, Noriko ^a   Tanida, Yuka ^a   Wakugawa, Motoshi ^a   Torii, Hideshi ^a   Tamaki, Kunihiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atopic dermatitis; CCR4; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR4; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; JAPAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, CHEMOKINE;

EID: 2442635136     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00015550410025859     Document Type: Article

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