Lack of association between the IL13 variant Arg110Gln and susceptibility to cedar pollinosis in a Japanese population

International Archives of Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 25-30

  Cheng, Lei ^a,b   Hirota, Tomomitsu ^c   Enomoto, Tadao ^d   Tamari, Mayumi ^c   Akahoshi, Mitsuteru ^c   Matsuda, Akira ^c   Shimizu, Makiko ^c   Takahashi, Naomi ^c   Enomoto, Keisuke ^e   Yamasaki, Akiko ^b   Mao, Xiao Quan ^b   Hopkin, Julian M ^f   Shirakawa, Taro ^b  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^d JAPANESE RED CROSS WAKAYAMA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^f SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allergic rhinitis; Candidate gene; Hay fever; Interleukin 13; Japanese cedar pollinosis; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 13;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POLLEN ALLERGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINITIS;

ARGININE; CRYPTOMERIA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-13; JAPAN; POLLEN; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, SEASONAL; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 30044445498     PISSN: 10182438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000089519     Document Type: Article

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