Fine mapping and positional candidate studies identify HLA-G as an asthma susceptibility gene on chromosome 6p21.

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Published in Am J Hum Genet on December 20, 2004

Authors

Dan Nicolae1, Nancy J Cox, Lucille A Lester, Daniel Schneider, Zheng Tan, Christine Billstrand, Susan Kuldanek, Joseph Donfack, Paul Kogut, Nina M Patel, Jeffrey Goodenbour, Timothy Howard, Raoul Wolf, Gerard H Koppelman, Steven R White, Rodney Parry, Dirkje S Postma, Deborah Meyers, Eugene R Bleecker, Joan S Hunt, Julian Solway, Carole Ober

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

Associated clinical trials:

Characterizing a 5P-Linked BHR Susceptibility Locus | NCT00006512

Identification of an Asthma Susceptibility Gene on 3P | NCT00006510

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