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No simple answers for the Finnish and Russian Karelia allergy contrast: Methylation of CD14 gene.
Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology - 1 Nov 2016
Khoo Siew-Kim, Mäkelä Mika, Chandler David, Schultz En Nee, Jamieson Sarra E, Goldblatt Jack, Haahtela Tari, LeSouëf Peter, Zhang Guicheng
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BACKGROUND: Finnish and Russian Karelian children have a highly contrasting occurrence of asthma and allergy. In these two environments, we studied associations between total serum immunoglobulin E (IgE) with methylation levels in cluster of differentiation 14 (CD14). METHODS: Five hundred Finnish and Russian Karelian children were included in four groups: Finnish children with high IgE (n = 126) and low IgE (n =...
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