An informative intragenic microsatellite marker suggests the IL-1 receptor as a genetic modifier in cystic fibrosis

Affiliations

• ¹ Dept of Pediatric Pneumology, Neonatology and Allergology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany [email protected].
• ² Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), German Centre for Lung Research, Hannover, Germany.
• ³ Pediatric Infectiology, Immunology, and Cystic Fibrosis, Children's Hospital of the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
• ⁴ Dept of Pediatric Pneumology, Neonatology and Allergology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
• ⁵ Dept of Pediatric Pneumology, Hauner Children's Hospital, University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
• ⁶ Comprehensive Pneumology Center (CPC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Munich, Germany.
• ⁷ Dept of Translational Pulmonology, Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
• ⁸ Division of Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergy and Cystic Fibrosis Center, Dept of Pediatrics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
• ⁹ Dept of Pediatric Pulmonology and Immunology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.