Could Dust Mites be Triggering Your Allergies or Asthma?

Lurking in ordinary house dust is one of the most common causes of allergies. Dust mites can be found in most homes and a single gram of house dust may have hundreds or even thousands of dust mites in it......

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Prospects for genetic susceptibility test for asthma

A new paper in The Lancet reports findings on genetic variants associated with risks and clinical features of asthma.
Researchers used genetic variants associated with susceptibility to asthma by previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in participants in a cohort of over 1,000 individuals, producing genotype-based risk scores for 880 individuals and examining their health records from birth to aged almost 40.....

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Varsity adds to research on asthma

New research arising from the University of Otago's internationally respected Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study has highlighted the important role of genetic factors in asthma which persists in later life......

Source: odt.co.nz