Is big beautiful? The continuing story of ADAM33 and asthma
Holgate, S.T. and Holloway, J.W. (2005) Is big beautiful? The continuing story of ADAM33 and asthma. Thorax, 60, (4), 263-264.
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Description/Abstract
The gene encoding A Disintegrin And Metalloprotease (ADAM) 33 was the first asthma susceptibility gene to be discovered by positional cloning.1 In 460 families enriched with asthma, linkage analysis using microsatellite markers spaced 9 cM apart revealed a region on chromosome 20p13 that carried one or more asthma genes, achieving a Maximum Lod Score (MLS) of 2.24 at 9.99 cM. The addition of further markers at 1.2 cM increased the MLS to 2.94 at 12.1 cM which further rose to 3.93 when bronchial hyperresponsiveness was included in the definition of asthma despite halving the sample size, thereby exceeding the threshold for genome wide significance. Physical mapping, direct cDNA selection, and sequencing of DNA cloned into bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs) identified 25 candidate genes.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | asthma, genetics, ADAM33 |
| Subjects: | R Medicine Q Science > QH Natural history > QH426 Genetics |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Medicine > Infection, Inflammation and Repair University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Medicine > Human Genetics |
| Item ID: | 27132 |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Apr 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Apr 2012 02:49 |
| Contributors: | Holgate, S.T. (Author) Holloway, J.W. (Author) |
| Date: | 2005 |
| Status: | Published |
| Contact Email Address: | sth@soton.ac.uk |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/27132 |
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