A case-control study in Nigeria involving 37 asthma cases and 30 controls has discovered that children with asthma have significantly lower serum albumin concentrations in comparison to controls and that there is a negative association between serum IgE and serum albumin, but that there is no significant association between serum albumin and blood eosinophil counts or eosinophil percentage (32). The gene discussed is ALB; the disease is asthma.