Interestingly, a recent transcriptome study on horses with insect bite hypersensitivity found that several MC specific markers (FCERIA, MS4A2, CD117, and MRGPX2) were significantly upregulated in the skin, indicating the importance of MCs not only in asthma but also in inflammatory skin reactions in horses [46], where CTMCs are the dominating type of MCs. This evidence concerns the gene KIT and asthma.