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Unusual haplotypic structure of IL8, a susceptibility locus for a common respiratory virus.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Aug 2001
Hull J, Ackerman H, Isles K, Usen S, Pinder M, Thomson A, Kwiatkowski D
Abstract excerpt
Interleukin-8 (IL8) is believed to play a role in the pathogenesis of bronchiolitis, a common viral disease of infancy, and a recent U.K. family study identified an association between this disease and the IL8-251A allele. In the present study we report data, from a different set of families, which replicate this finding; combined analysis of 194 nuclear families through use of the transmission/disequilibrium...
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