Some Severe Asthma Patients Carry CFTR Variants: Genetic Study

Some people with severe asthma, an inflammatory lung condition, carry variants of the CFTR gene that causes cystic fibrosis (CF), a genetic study found. These findings support the genetic assessment of severe asthma patients with CF-related symptoms, the scientists recommended. The study, “DNA Sequencing Analysis of…

UK Patients Urged to Join in New CF BioResource Project

People with cystic fibrosis (CF) in the U.K. are encouraged to join the new CF BioResource project — giving them a unique opportunity to help connect genetic data to existing clinical data registries and advance understanding of CF. The ultimate goal of this project, conducted within the…