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Epistasis between serine protease inhibitor Kazal-type 5 (SPINK5) and thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) genes contributes to childhood asthma.
The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology - 1 Oct 2014
Biagini Myers Jocelyn M, Martin Lisa J, Kovacic Melinda Butsch, Mersha Tesfaye B, He Hua, Pilipenko Valentina, Lindsey Mark A, Ericksen Mark B, Bernstein David I, LeMasters Grace K, Lockey James E, Khurana Hershey Gurjit K
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Epithelial genes have previously been associated with asthma but only explain a small fraction of heritability. In part, this might be due to epistasis, which is often not considered. OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine independent and epistatic associations between filaggrin (FLG), serine protease inhibitor Kazal-type 5 (SPINK5), and thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) gene variants and childhood...
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