A review of the genetic epidemiology of resistance to parasitic disease and atopic asthma: Common variants for common phenotypes?

Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 379-385

  Barnes, Kathleen C ^a,b   Grant, Audrey V ^a   Gao, Peisong ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS ASTHMA AND ALLERGY CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atopy; Genes; Parasite

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE RESISTANCE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGENETICS; MALARIA; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

EID: 25144469268     PISSN: 15284050     EISSN: 14736322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.all.0000182543.37724.7b     Document Type: Review

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