Table of Contents Author Guidelines Submit a Manuscript
Table of Contents Alerts

To receive news and publication updates for Journal of Immunology Research, enter your email address in the box below.

Journal of Immunology Research
Volume 2015, Article ID 679813, 9 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/679813
Research Article

Autoimmune Hepatitis in Brazilian Children: IgE and Genetic Polymorphisms in Associated Genes

Léa Campos de Oliveira,1 Anna Carla Goldberg,2,3 Maria Lucia Carnevale Marin,4,5 Karina Rosa Schneidwind,6 Amanda Farage Frade,7 Jorge Kalil,3,4,5,7 Irene Kasue Miura,6 Renata Pereira Sustovich Pugliese,6 Vera Lucia Baggio Danesi,6 and Gilda Porta6

1Laboratório de Medicina Laboratorial (LIM03), Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, 05403-000 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, 05652-900 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
3Instituto de Investigação em Imunologia, Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia, 05403-000 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
4Laboratório de Imunologia, Instituto do Coração (InCor), Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, 05403-000 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
5Laboratório de Histocompatibilidade e Imunidade Celular (LIM19), Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, 05403-000 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
6Departamento de Hepatologia, Instituto da Criança, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, 05403-000 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
7Divisão de Alergia e Imunologia Clínica, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, 05403-000 São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Received 18 June 2015; Accepted 12 October 2015

Academic Editor: Fulvia Ceccarelli

Copyright © 2015 Léa Campos de Oliveira et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Supplementary Material

Supplementary Table 1. Genotype and allele frequencies of IL4 (rs 2243250, 2070874, and 222702840) and IL5 (rs 2069812) polymorphisms do not show significant differences between AIH-1 and HC groups.

  1. Supplementary Table