HLA haplotypes and hayfever: a possible protective role
- 1 September 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Clinical and Experimental Allergy
- Vol. 9 (5) , 425-427
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2222.1979.tb02504.x
Abstract
HLA haplotype frequencies of European asthmatic children and their immediate families were studied, and a disassociation between haplotype A1-B8 and skin sensitivity to grass pollens was found, suggesting that within this allergic population, possession of the haplotype A1-B8 conferred possible protection against grass pollinosis. There was no association between A1-B8 and clinical asthma or between it and skin sensitivity to the house dust mite.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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