ITIH5 and eosinophilic esophagitis: Variants at 10p14 have been previously associated with EoE in the vicinity of ITIH5 and GATA324; however, this study identified an independent association (LD r2 < 0.01) over 1 MB away in an intergenic region, a locus that has been associated with eosinophil counts and atopic disease 28,29.