Association study of mast cell chymase polymorphisms with atopy

Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1256-1261

  Weidinger, Stephan ^a,b   Rummler L ^a   Klopp, N ^b   Wagenpfeil, S ^c   Baurecht, H J ^c   Fischer, G ^b   Holle, R ^b   Gauger, A ^a   Schafer T ^d   Jakob, T ^b   Ollert, M ^a   Behrendt, H ^a   Wichmann, H E ^b   Ring, J ^a   Illig, T ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Association; Atopic eczema; Chymase; Promoter; Single nucleotide polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

CHYMASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ADULT; ALLERGIC CONJUNCTIVITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; ATOPY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CMA1 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GERMANY; HAPLOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MAST CELL; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; RHINOCONJUNCTIVITIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CHYMASES; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MALE; MAST CELLS; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); QUESTIONNAIRES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 24744449958     PISSN: 01054538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1398-9995.2005.00879.x     Document Type: Article

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