Child and adult asthma linked to different genes
Eventually personalised medicine approaches may mean the two patient groups are treated differently, say researchers
Child- and adult-onset asthma have some faulty genes in common, but there are also important differences, meaning optimal treatment could differ between the two, US researchers say.
The study of more than 356,000 Caucasian individuals shows that while 37 genetic variants were common to both child- and adult-onset disease, 23 were unique in child-onset disease and one to adult-onset.
