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Innate IL-23/Type 17 immune responses mediate the effect of the 17q21 locus on childhood asthma.
Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology - 1 Jul 2021
Wang Ni, Brix Susanne, Larsen Jeppe M, Thysen Anna H, Rasmussen Morten A, Workman Christopher T, Stokholm Jakob, Bønnelykke Klaus, Bisgaard Hans, Chawes Bo L
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BACKGROUND: Several childhood asthma risk loci that relate to immune function have been identified by genome-wide association studies (GWAS), but the underlying mechanisms remain unknown. OBJECTIVE: Here, we examined whether perturbed innate immune responses mediate the association between known genetic risk variants and development of childhood asthma. METHODS: Peripheral blood mononuclear cells from...
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