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Cat exposure in early life decreases asthma risk from the 17q21 high-risk variant.
The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology - 1 May 2018
Stokholm Jakob, Chawes Bo L, Vissing Nadja, Bønnelykke Klaus, Bisgaard Hans
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Early-life exposure to cats and dogs has shown diverging associations with childhood asthma risk, and gene-environment interaction is one possible explanation. OBJECTIVES: We investigated interactions between cat and dog exposure and single nucleotide polymorphism rs7216389 variants in the chromosome 17q21 locus, the strongest known genetic risk factor for childhood asthma. METHODS: Genotyping was...
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