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Genome-wide association study of recalcitrant atopic dermatitis in Korean children.
The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology - 1 Sept 2015
Kim Kyung Won, Myers Rachel A, Lee Ji Hyun, Igartua Catherine, Lee Kyung Eun, Kim Yoon Hee, Kim Eun-Jin, Yoon Dankyu, Lee Joo-Shil, Hirota Tomomitsu, Tamari Mayumi, Takahashi Atsushi, Kubo Michiaki, Choi Je-Min, Kim Kyu-Earn, Nicolae Dan L, Ober Carole, Sohn Myung Hyun
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a heterogeneous chronic inflammatory skin disease. Most AD during infancy resolves during childhood, but moderate-to-severe AD with allergic sensitization is more likely to persist into adulthood and more often occurs with other allergic diseases. OBJECTIVE: We sought to find susceptibility loci by performing the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) of AD in Korean...
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