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Genetic polymorphisms at FCER1B and PAI-1 and asthma susceptibility.
Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology - 1 Jul 2006
Hizawa N, Maeda Y, Konno S, Fukui Y, Takahashi D, Nishimura M
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BACKGROUND: We previously detected a promoter polymorphism (- 109C/T) in the gene for the beta-chain of the high-affinity receptor for IgE (FCER1B), which was associated with total serum IgE levels but not with asthma in a Japanese population. A genetic interaction is biologically plausible between FcepsilonRI-beta and the plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1), which is highly expressed in mast cells in...
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