Patent ID: 7671182

Claim:
An isolated allelic variant consisting of R1 and R3 loci, wherein said R1 locus consists of GT dinucleotide repeats from nucleotide position 125 from the 5′ end of SEQ ID NO:1 and said R3 locus consists of GT dinucleotide repeats from nucleotide position 87 from the 5′ end of SEQ ID NO:2 of Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription-6 (STAT-6) gene for use in predicting susceptibility of a human subject to atopic asthma, wherein the isolated variants have haplotype 17 — 15, where the haplotype has 17 repeats on the R1 locus and 15 repeats on R3 locus, and wherein the isolated variants have haplotype 16 — 15, where the haplotype has 16 repeats on the R1 locus and 15 repeats on the R3 locus, and wherein these haplotypes are associated with susceptibility to asthma.