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V75R576 IL-4 receptor alpha is associated with allergic asthma and enhanced IL-4 receptor function.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Aug 2002
Risma Kimberly A, Wang Ning, Andrews Ryan P, Cunningham Christie M, Ericksen Mark B, Bernstein Jonathan A, Chakraborty Ranajit, Hershey Gurjit K Khurana
Abstract excerpt
Asthma is a complex polygenic disease. Many studies have implicated the importance of IL-4R alpha in the development of allergic inflammation and its gene has been implicated in the genetics of asthma and atopy. In this study, we examined the functional consequences of two of the human IL-4R alpha allelic variants that have been found to associate with asthma and atopy. We examined the effects of each variant...
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