Five New Genomic Regions Found that Boost Risk of Asthma

An international research team, including the Trans-National Asthma Genetics Consortium (TAGC), has discovered five new regions of the genome that increase the risk of asthma. Their study ("Multiancestry Association Study Identifies New Asthma Risk Loci That Colocalize with Immune-Cell Enhancer Marks") appears in  Nature Genetics ."We examined common variation in asthma risk by conducting a meta-analysis of worldwide asthma genome-wide association studies...of individuals from eth