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HLA and asthma phenotypes/endotypes: a review.
Human immunology - 1 Aug 2014
Kontakioti Eirini, Domvri Kalliopi, Papakosta Despina, Daniilidis Michail
Abstract excerpt
Asthma is a complex chronic inflammatory disease of the airways caused by the interaction of genetic susceptibility with environmental influences. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) represent the most powerful approach for asthma, that have identified several genes (e.g., IL18R1, IL33, SMAD3, ORMDL3, HLA-DQ and IL2RB loci). HLA super-locus is a genomic region in the chromosomal position 6p21. Since no gene...
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