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Severity of childhood asthma and human leukocyte antigens type.
The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma - 1 Apr 2007
Juhn Young J, Kita Hirohito, Bagniewski Stephanie M, Weaver Amy L, Pankratz V Shane, Jacobson Robert M, Poland Gregory A
Abstract excerpt
We sought to learn if Class II HLA genes are associated with the severity of asthma in children. We examined a previously recruited cohort of 340 healthy children who had Class II HLA allele data available. We conducted a comprehensive review of their medical records to determine asthma status and, when present, its severity. We found that Class II HLA alleles, which were previously reported to have an...
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