A common exonic variant of Interleukin21 confers susceptibility to atopic asthma

International Archives of Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 137-146

  Chatterjee, Rajshekhar ^a   Batra, Jyotsna ^a   Ghosh, Balaram ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Asthma; Haplotype; IL 21 level; Microsatellite repeat marker; Single nucleotide polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 21; MESSENGER RNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ADULT; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EXON; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASTHMA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; EXONS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKINS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 51849118676     PISSN: 10182438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000155744     Document Type: Article

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