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The value of isolated populations in genetic studies of allergic diseases.
Current opinion in allergy and clinical immunology - 1 Oct 2002
Laitinen Tarja
Abstract excerpt
Asthma and other IgE-mediated atopic disorders are extremely common in the population, with a consistent, but rather small, genetic component (lambda 3-5) in the inheritance of the disease. So far, genome-wide gene mapping studies in asthma-related traits have not achieved the same success as the positional cloning of genes for Mendelian diseases. Many disease predisposing alleles are believed to be involved in...
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