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The IL-1beta genotype carries asthma susceptibility only in men.
The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology - 1 Mar 2002
Karjalainen Jussi, Nieminen Markku M, Aromaa Arpo, Klaukka Timo, Hurme Mikko
Abstract excerpt
One proinflammatory cytokine possibly implicated in the pathogenesis of asthma is IL-1beta. We analyzed the polymorphism of the IL-1beta gene (single nucleotide exchange at position -511) in a cohort of 245 patients with asthma (mean age, 58 years; age range, 31-84 years) and 405 controls. There were no differences in the allele frequencies. However, in men the genotype distribution differed significantly between...
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