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Association between interleukin-18 gene polymorphism 105A/C and asthma.
Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology - 1 Aug 2003
Higa S, Hirano T, Mayumi M, Hiraoka M, Ohshima Y, Nambu M, Yamaguchi E, Hizawa N, Kondo N, Matsui E, Katada Y, Miyatake A, Kawase I, Tanaka T
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: IL-18 has been shown to exert anti-allergic or allergy-promoting activities, but the existence of genetic polymorphisms in the coding regions of IL-18 gene has not been demonstrated. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to investigate whether polymorphism is present in the coding regi...
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