An epigenome-wide association study of total serum immunoglobulin e concentration

Nature

Volumn 520, Issue 7549, 2015, Pages 670-674

  Liang, Liming ^a   Willis Owen, Saffron A G ^b   Laprise, Catherine ^c   Wong, Kenny C C ^b   Davies, Gwyneth A ^d   Hudson, Thomas J ^e,f   Binia, Aristea ^b   Hopkin, Julian M ^d   Yang, Ivana V ^g   Grundberg, Elin ^h   Busche, Stephan ^h   Hudson, Marie ⁱ   Rönnblom, Lars ^j   Pastinen, Tomi M ^h,k   Schwartz, David A ^g   Lathrop, G Mark ^h   Moffatt, Miriam F ^b   Cookson, William O C M ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI   (Canada)

^d SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e ONTARIO INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^j UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^k MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR3; DNA; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 33; INTERLEUKIN 4; MAJOR BASIC PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; TOBACCO SMOKE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1; AUTACOID;

ALLERGY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GENOME; METHYLATION; PHOSPHOLIPID; SERUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CPG ISLAND; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METHYLATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMOKING; BLOOD; CYTOLOGY; DNA METHYLATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; META ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASTHMA; CHILD; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EOSINOPHILS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928819497     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14125     Document Type: Article

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