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ArticleAllergy & rhinology (Providence, R.I.)2015

Association of interleukin 7 receptor (rs1494555 and rs6897932) gene polymorphisms with asthma in a north Indian population.

Shweta Sinha, Jagtar Singh, Surinder Kumar Jindal

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Article in Allergy & rhinology (Providence, R.I.), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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  1. Sex-biased Gene Expression Underlies Immune Dysfunction in Asthma.American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology · 2025
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Shweta SinhaDepartment of Biotechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
Jagtar Singh
Surinder Kumar Jindal
Panjab University · INPost Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundInterleukin 7R (IL-7R), a cytokine receptor gene, plays an important role in the development of innate and adaptive inflammatory response in asthma etiology.

objectiveIL-7R is a heterodimeric protein composed of α chain and γ chain. The α chain of IL-7R has a range of single nucleotide polymorphisms, which give rise to nonsynonymous amino-acid substitutions that might result in an increased production of inflammatory cytokines and cause asthma.

methodsA case-control study was conducted with a total of 964 subjects, including 483 healthy controls and 481 patients with asthma. DNA samples were extracted from blood, and genotyping was done by using sequence-specific-primer-polymerase chain reaction.

resultsStatistical analysis revealed that IL-7R + 1237A/G (rs1494555) gene polymorphism shows a highly protective association toward asthma (odds ratio [OR] 0.56, p < 0.001) in AG genotype as well as in mutant GG genotype (OR 0.64, p = 0.029). However, IL-7R + 2087T/C (rs6897932) polymorphism showed an increased risk toward asthma in TC genotype (OR 1.70, p = 0.002) as well as in the CC genotype (OR 1.68, p = 0.002). Furthermore, the GT and AC haplotypes in the IL-7R polymorphisms were also found to be significantly associated with asthma (p < 0.001 and p = 0.037, respectively).

conclusionsThe study conducted in a north Indian population indicated that the protective association was observed for the +1237A/G position, and a significant risk was observed for the +2087T/C position in asthma.

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