Asthma
New asthma data have been reported by scientists at GlaxoSmithKline
Published in Genetics and Environmental Business Week, September 18th, 2008
According to a study from the United States, "Asthma is a multifactorial disease, in which the intricate interplay between genetic and environmental factors underlies the overall phenotype of the disease. Using a genome-wide scan for linkage in a population comprising of Danish families, we identified a novel linked locus on chromosome 1qter (LOD 3.6, asthma) and supporting evidence for this locus was identified for both asthma and atopic-asthma phenotypes in the GAIN (Genetics of Asthma International Network) families."
"The putative susceptibility gene was progressively localized to a 4.5 Mb region on chromosome 1q adjacent to the telomere, through a series of...
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