ABSTRACT
<p><b>BACKGROUND</b>Wheat-dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis (WDEIA) is a complex disease resulting from interaction of environmental and genetic factors. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) (IL-4-C590T, IL-4RA A1727G and IL-10-A627C) with WDEIA.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>SNP genotyping was conducted among the case subset composing 51 patients with WDEIA and four control subsets by sequencing DNA yielded from polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Statistical analysis of genotype/allele's frequencies between cases and controls were carried out through Fisher's exact test with the software of SPSS16.0.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>For IL-4-C590T, there were statistically significant differences of genotype frequencies in case-control 1 (P = 0.03) and case-control 4 (P = 0.001) and statistically significant differences of allele frequencies in three case-control models (case-control 1: OR = 4.27 (95%CI = 1.40 - 13.07), P = 0.009; case-control 3: OR = 1.99 (95%CI = 1.13 - 3.50), P = 0.02; case-control 4: OR = 2.39 (95%CI = 1.49 - 3.84), P = 0.001). All other association studies showed no statistically significant (P > 0.05).</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>IL-4-C590T may be related to the susceptibility of WDEIA, and the minor allele C might be a potential risk factor accounting for WDEIA. IL-4RA A1727G and IL-10-A627C might not be involved in the occurrence of WDEIA.</p>