Methods for diagnosis, prediction and treatment of asthma and other inflammatory conditions based on eotaxin coding sequence polymorphism

1. A composition comprising an isolated nucleic acid consisting of the wild type normal eotaxin gene sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, wherein said nucleic acid includes a guanine to adenine substitution 67 base pairs following the ATG initiation codon of the wild type normal eotaxin gene, whereby counting is initiated at the A in that codon.

2. A composition comprising an isolated oligonucleotide consisting of a nucleotide sequence selected from the group consisted of:

AGAAACCACCACCTCTCACG;

(SEQ ID NO: 2)

GAGAATTTGCAGTGAGTCTGT;

(SEQ ID NO: 3)

GGGGCTTACCTGGCCCAAC;

(SEQ ID NO: 4)

GGGGCTTACCTGGCCCAAT;

(SEQ ID NO: 5)

and

TCAAGGAAGGTTCTTAGATCG.

(SEQ ID NO. 6).