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Further support for the association of CCR5 allelic variants with asthma susceptibility.
European journal of immunogenetics : official journal of the British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics - 1 Dec 2002
McGinnis R, Child F, Clayton S, Davies S, Lenney W, Illig T, Wjst M, Spurr N, Debouck C, Hajeer A H, Ollier W E R, Strange R, Fryer A A
Abstract excerpt
English and German nuclear families containing multiple asthmatic children and asthmatic parents were analysed to retest a recently reported association between resistance to asthma and the delta32 allele of chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5). Analysis of the families by the transmission-disequilibrium test (TDT) revealed a non-significant trend in the English families that provided marginal confirmation of the...
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