Article
The distribution of HLA alleles among children with atopic asthma in Croatia.
Collegium antropologicum - 1 Dec 2011
Ivković-Jureković Irena, Zunec Renata, Balog Vesna, Grubić Zorana
Abstract excerpt
Allergic asthma is a multifactorial disease involving well known environmental factors and less identified genetic components. In several studies the HLA genes have been implicated in the development of asthma and atopy, but the importance of these associations remains unclear. The aim of the present study was to analyse the distribution of specificities at HLA class I loci (-A and -B) and HLA class II locus...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Alleles
- Asthma
- Case-Control Studies
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Croatia
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- HLA-DRB1 Chains
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I
- Humans
- Hypersensitivity
- Male
