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Published on: 11/15/2007
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In October 2004, medical school researchers found that severe asthma is controlled by a gene â€" called the MIF gene â€" that controls how asthma will develop in a patient once someone has the disease, said Richard Bucala, Yale professor of medicine and co-author of the study.
Once someone has asthma, there are genes that will control how severe the disease will be, Bucala said.
"The results supported an important role for MIF in the pathogenesis of human asthma," Bucala said.
He said this new finding shows that YKL-40 may also be similarly useful to researchers and physicians.