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Maternal inheritance of atopic IgE responsiveness on chromosome 11q.
Lancet (London, England) - 15 Aug 1992
Cookson W O, Young R P, Sandford A J, Moffatt M F, Shirakawa T, Sharp P A, Faux J A, Julier C, Nakumuura Y, Nakumura Y
Abstract excerpt
Atopy is a common familial state underlying allergic asthma and rhinitis. Lately, we have assigned a gene for atopy to chromosome 11q by linkage to the marker D11S97. Since previous studies have suggested that the risk of atopy is higher for children of atopic mothers than for those of atopic fathers, we sought differences between maternal and paternal patterns of transmission at the 11q13 locus among pairs of...
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