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A polymorphism in the human UGRP1 gene promoter that regulates transcription is associated with an increased risk of asthma.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Mar 2002
Niimi Tomoaki, Munakata Mitsuru, Keck-Waggoner Catherine L, Popescu Nicholas C, Levitt Roy C, Hisada Michie, Kimura Shioko
Abstract excerpt
Several traits associated with asthma phenotypes, such as high total serum immunoglobulin E and bronchial hyperresponsiveness, have been linked by numerous genome-screen studies and linkage analyses to markers on human chromosome 5q31-q34. In the present article, we describe UGRP1 (encoding uteroglobin-related protein 1) as one of asthma-susceptibility genes that is located on chromosome 5q31-q32. UGRP1 is a...
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