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Polymorphism of egfr Intron1 is associated with susceptibility and severity of asthma.
The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma - 1 Nov 2006
Wang Xintao, Saito Junpei, Ishida Takashi, Munakata Mitsuru
Abstract excerpt
To clarify the associations of the egfr CA repeat polymorphism with asthma and its severity, we examined 579 Japanese asthmatics and 232 control subjects. The number of CA repeat ranges from 9 to 24. Asthmatic patients had a significantly higher incidence of having shorter alleles (<==16 CA repeats) compared with control subjects (p < 0.05). The most severe asthmatic patients have the highest frequency of short...
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