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Polymorphisms in SPINK5 are not associated with asthma in a Dutch population.
The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology - 1 Mar 2005
Jongepier Hajo, Koppelman Gerard H, Nolte Ilja M, Bruinenberg Marcel, Bleecker Eugene R, Meyers Deborah A, te Meerman Gerard J, Postma Dirkje S
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Asthma and allergic phenotypes are complex genetic diseases with known linkage to chromosome 5q. This region has many candidate genes, including serine protease inhibitor Kazal type 5 (SPINK5), which has been associated with asthma and atopic dermatitis in family-based studies of children with atopic dermatitis. OBJECTIVE: We sought to investigate whether single nucleotide polymorphisms in SPINK5 are...
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