Subtle mutations in immune gene may increase risk for asthma

Thursday, July 1, 2010 - 06:35 in Health & Medicine

A gene that encodes a protein responsible for determining whether certain immune cells live or die shows subtle differences in some people with asthma, a team led by Johns Hopkins researchers reports in the June European Journal of Human Genetics...

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