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Human subjects are protected from mast cell tryptase deficiency despite frequent inheritance of loss-of-function mutations.
The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology - 1 Nov 2009
Trivedi Neil N, Tamraz Bani, Chu Catherine, Kwok Pui-Yan, Caughey George H
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BACKGROUND: Mast cell tryptases have proposed roles in allergic inflammation and host defense against infection. Tryptase gene loci TPSAB1 and TPSB2 are known to be polymorphic, but the nature and extent of diversity at these loci have not been fully explored. OBJECTIVE: We sought to compare func...
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