Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3201063 | Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology | 2009 | 15 Pages |
Abstract
Our findings indicate that SNPs at the IL4 locus that are potentially exclusive to African Americans are associated with susceptibility to asthma. Only 3 of the 26 private SNPs (ie, SNPs present only in the subjects with asthma or only in the controls) are tagged by single SNPs on one of the common genotyping platforms used in genome-wide association studies. We also find that most of the private SNPs cannot be reliably imputed, highlighting the importance of sequencing to identify genetic variants contributing to common diseases in African Americans.
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Gabe BA, Dara G. PhD, Carole PhD, Emma E. PhD,