There was no association between evaluated SNPs located in IL-4 and IL-10 with allergic conjunctivitis reported a new study published in Austin Journal of Clinical Ophthalmology. It is very well known that cytokines play important role in inflammatory and allergic diseases and several clinical findings evidenced that IL-4 and IL-10 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are associated with allergic diseases such as asthma or allergic rhinitis.
However, there is less evidence for an association between SNPs and allergic conjunctivitis such as seasonal allergic conjunctivitis (SAC) and vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC) in a pediatric population. A case-control association study of 108 patients (the mean age of patients were 12.4±2.3 years) with allergic conjunctivitis (69 SAC and 39 VKC) and 95 controls (the mean age was 12.9±2.4 years) reported that there were no significant differences…
