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Histamine N-methyltransferase pharmacogenetics: association of a common functional polymorphism with asthma.
Pharmacogenetics - 1 Apr 2000
Yan L, Galinsky R E, Bernstein J A, Liggett S B, Weinshilboum R M
Abstract excerpt
Histamine is involved in the pathophysiology of asthma, and histamine N-methyltransferase (HNMT) plays the dominant role in histamine metabolism in human bronchial epithelium. Levels of HNMT activity in human tissues are controlled, in part, by inheritance. A common C314T polymorphism within the HNMT gene results in a Thr105Ile change in encoded amino acid, and the T314 allele is associated with decreased levels...
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