| Literature DB >> 10641559 |
C Ober1, A Tsalenko, S Willadsen, D Newman, R Daniel, X Wu, J Andal, D Hoki, D Schneider, K True, C Schou, R Parry, N Cox.
Abstract
A genome-wide screen for loci influencing positive skin prick tests (SPT) to airborne allergens was conducted in the Hutterites, a founder population of European ancestry. Positive SPT to 14 standardized allergens was measured in 370 subjects in our primary sample and 324 subjects in a replication sample. Evidence for linkage to positive SPT was assessed using the transmission disequilibrium test (TDT) with 337 autosomal markers (average spacing 9.13 cM, SD = 7.8 cM). Three loci showed the strongest overall evidence of linkage to atopy, with at least one allele-specific and a locus-specific p< 1 x 10(-4). This study provides evidence for at least three atopy-susceptibility loci in the Hutterites on chromosomes 1, 6 and 16.Mesh:
Year: 1999 PMID: 10641559
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Exp Allergy ISSN: 0954-7894 Impact factor: 5.018