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Association of Interleukin-12A rs568408 with Susceptibility to Asthma in Taiwan.
Scientific reports - 9 Jun 2017
Shen Te-Chun, Tsai Chia-Wen, Chang Wen-Shin, Wang Shengyu, Chao Che-Yi, Hsiao Chieh-Lun, Chen Wei-Chun, Hsia Te-Chun, Bau Da-Tian
Abstract excerpt
Asthma is an inflammatory disease and interleukin 12 (IL-12) may play a regulatory role in allergen-induced inflammation. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of polymorphisms in IL-12A/IL-12B with asthma. The asthma group included 198 adult patients and the control group included 453 individuals without asthma that were frequency-matched by gender and age. The distribution of genotypic and...
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