Breakthrough Asthma Study Shows Multiple Genetic Input Required
Physiological Genomics, published by the American Physiological Society
There has been significant progress in the study of ‘Asthma’ recently by American Genetic Physiologist, Dr. David Beier. While the environmental impact on the development of ‘Asthma’ has been well known and researched for many years, it has now been discovered that the genetic inheritance of wheezing is directly related to sever ‘Asthma’. Further study of identifying where these genes are in the human genome will require a lot more research, and funding. While the current treatments for ‘Asthma’ are often extremely affective and successful, it continues to affect billions of adults and children worldwide and is the most common childhood chronic disease. At this moment, Dr. Beier and his team have found two linkages is the human genome that appear to be an effect, if not a cause of the respiratory traits of an 'Asthmatic'. The current studies undergoing include methods of breeding organisms, and narrowing the genetic focus in order to possibly identify a unique gene that is common in every affected organisms’ genome. For this study to continue to develop its life changing possible discoveries substantial federal funding is required. To better understand, and to hopefully one day beat a disease that claims nearly 200,000 lives each year, the price tag is hardly debatable.
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