Effect of variation in CHI3L1 on serum YKL-40 level, risk of asthma, and lung function

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 358, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 1682-1691

  Ober, Carole ^a   Tan, Zheng ^a   Sun, Ying ^a   Possick, Jennifer D ^c   Pan, Lin ^a   Nicolae, Raluca ^a   Radford, Sadie ^a   Parry, Rodney R ^d   Heinzmann, Andrea ^e   Deichmann, Klaus A ^e   Lester, Lucille A ^a   Gern, James E ^b   Lemanske Jr , Robert F ^b   Nicolae, Dan L ^a   Elias, Jack A ^c   Chupp, Geoffrey L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMA PROTEIN; PROTEIN YKL 40; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHI3L1 GENE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 1Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 42249103640     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa0708801     Document Type: Article

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