I I Haplotypes of G-protein-coupled receptor 154 are associated with childhood allergy and asthma Erik Melén 1,2* , Sara Bruce 3,4,5* , Gert Doekes 6 , Michael Kabesch 7 , Tarja Laitinen 8,9 , Roger Lauener 10 , Cecilia M Lindgren 3,4 , Josef Riedler 11 , Annika Scheynius 5 , Marianne van Hage- Hamsten 12 , Juha Kere 3,4,8 , Göran Pershagen 1,13 , Magnus Wickman 1,13 , Fredrik Nyberg 1,14 , and the PARSIFAL Genetics study group. 1 Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden 2 Centre for Allergy Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden 3 Clinical Research Centre, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden 4 Department of Biosciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden 5 Clinical Allergy Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet and University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden 6 Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands 7 University Children’s Hospital, Ludwig Maximilian’s University Munich, Germany 8 GeneOS Limited, Helsinki, Finland 9 Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 10 Division for Immunology, Zurich University Children’s Hospital, Switzerland 11 Children's Hospital Schwarzach, Austria 12 Department of Medicine, Clinical Immunology and Allergy Unit, Karolinska Institutet and University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden 13 Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Stockholm County Council, Sweden 14 AstraZeneca R&D Mölndal, Sweden AJRCCM Articles in Press. Published on February 11, 2005 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200410-1317OC Copyright (C) 2005 by the American Thoracic Society.