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Analysis of hsp70 gene polymorphism in allergic asthma.
Allergy - 1 Feb 1999
Aron Y, Busson M, Polla B S, Dusser D, Lockhart A, Swierczewski E, Favatier F
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Allergic asthma is a multifactorial and probably multigenic inflammatory disease of the upper airways, and has been associated with the HLA class II alleles DR4 and DR7. Here we investigated possible associations with other polymorphic susceptibility/resistance genes located within the major histocompatibility complex, i.e., the genes coding the major 70-kDa heat-shock proteins (HSP; Hsp70) hsp70-1,...
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