African ancestry is associated with risk of asthma and high total serum IgE in a population from the Caribbean Coast of Colombia.

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Published in Hum Genet on March 17, 2009

Authors

Candelaria Vergara1, Luis Caraballo, Dilia Mercado, Silvia Jimenez, Winston Rojas, Nicholas Rafaels, Tracey Hand, Monica Campbell, Yuhjung J Tsai, Li Gao, Constanza Duque, Sergio Lopez, Gabriel Bedoya, Andrés Ruiz-Linares, Kathleen C Barnes

Author Affiliations

1: Institute for Immunological Research, University of Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia.

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