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SUBMITTER: Liu Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3693103 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Yongan Y Liu Tao T Nie Wei W Lai Guoxiang G Xiu Qingyu Q
BioMed research international 20130611
There are controversies on the association between interleukin-13 (IL-13) +1923C/T polymorphism (rs1295686) and the risk of asthma. We performed this study to assess the association by the method of meta-analysis. A systematic search current to October 16, 2012, was conducted using PubMed, EMBASE, and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) and identified ten studies comprising 13698 cases and 38209 controls. The pooled odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated ...[more]