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Allele-specific targeting of microRNAs to HLA-G and risk of asthma.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Oct 2007
Tan Zheng, Randall Glenn, Fan Jihua, Camoretti-Mercado Blanca, Brockman-Schneider Rebecca, Pan Lin, Solway Julian, Gern James E, Lemanske Robert F, Nicolae Dan, Ober Carole
Abstract excerpt
HLA-G is a nonclassic, class I HLA molecule that has important immunomodulatory properties. Previously, we identified HLA-G as an asthma-susceptibility gene and discovered that the risk of asthma in a child was determined by both the child's HLA-G genotype and the mother's affection status. Here...
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