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Association between mast cell chymase genotype and atopic eczema: comparison between patients with atopic eczema alone and those with atopic eczema and atopic respiratory disease.
Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology - 1 Jun 1999
Tanaka K, Sugiura H, Uehara M, Sato H, Hashimoto-Tamaoki T, Furuyama J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: It has remained unclear whether genetic background of patients with atopic eczema (AE) alone is identical to that of patients with both AE and atopic respiratory disease. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to assess whether there is a genetic difference between these two groups of AE patients. METHOD: We determined the genotype with regard to an allelic polymorphism in the gene for mast cell chymase (MCC; a serine...
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