Amira Ahmed Abdelwahab <br/><br/>
Interleukin-18-607 C/A gene polymorphism in Egyptian asthmatic children /  
 تعدد أشكال جين الإنترلوكين٦٠٧-١٨ سى/ايه الشعبى لدى الأطفال المصريين 
Amira Ahmed Abdelwahab ; Supervised Hala Hamdi Shaaban , Abeer Mohamed Mohy , Abdelrahman Ahmed Abdelrazek 
 - Cairo :   Amira Ahmed Abdelwahab ,   2012 
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<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics 
<br/><br/> Asthma is a multifactorial respiratory disease determined by interactions of multiple disease susceptibility genes and environmental factors. IL-18 is an important cytokine for initiating and perpetuating the catabolic and inflammatory response in allegic asthma. A number of SNPs that influence IL-18 production are found in the gene promoter region 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Definition of asthma Etiology of asthma Incidence and prevalence of asthma