Press Release No. 28
Berlin
Neurodermatitis genes influence other allergies
There’s a typical "career" for some allergic people, and it starts very early on the skin: babies develop atopic dermatitis, food allergies may follow, then comes asthma and later on hay fever. A group of scientists led by Ingo Marenholz and Young-Ae Lee at the MDC, working with colleagues from several institutions, has now identified seven genetic risk loci for this course of disease.