Candidate gene association studies and evidence for gene-by-gene interactions

Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 681-708

  Kabesch, Michael ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A DISINTEGRIN AND METALLOPROTEINASE; CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN PROTEIN 15; CD14 ANTIGEN; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; METALLOPROTEINASE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MULTIFACTORIAL GENETIC DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

EID: 27644522293     PISSN: 08898561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iac.2005.07.001     Document Type: Review

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