An international team of researchers have identified the genes that put some children at extremely high risks of serious asthma attacks. Asthma is the most frequent chronic disease in children, but young children are at an even greater risk of severe asthma attacks. Little is known about these severe asthma attacks in infants, which is why it is very difficult to treat or prevent. Researchers have identified the genes that put some children at risk for experiencing severe asthma attacks. The study showed that severe asthma attacks requiring hospitalization were usually genetically related, and that the genes in young children play a greater role with asthma rather than the genes in adults. Klaus Bønnelykke states, "By screening children's DNA we've discovered that a gene called CDHR3, which was previously unassociated with the disease, plays a key role for the development of asthma, particularly in the very early years of life". Therefore the study shows that asthma is more than a single disease, it is many sub types and should be genetically mapped and understood if treatment and prevention will be done in the near future. This study is very interesting in my opinon, I did not know asthma was a genetically associated disease. With further testing and understanding of the CDHR3 gene, chronic asthma can possibly be prevented or treated. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/268959.php
http://topnews.ae/content/219043-gene-cdhr3-can-cause-severe-asthma-children
Asthma is definitely a genetically associated condition as well as an environmentally influenced one. Most of my siblings and I have suffered with asthma. I have been hospitalized as a child to get my asthma under control. It would be great for current asthma sufferers to be able to prevent or better treat this condition in their future offspring.
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