Gene Could Explain Why Asthma Treatments Fail Some

Great article discussing why approximately 40% of people with asthma fail to achieve long term relief or control of their symptoms with steroids.  Researchers found that there is a specific gene (one needs to inherit two), which can affect a person's response to steroids (i.e inhalers, "Advair Diskus", etc.).  Data was gathered measuring lung function in participants - those with the more rare copies of the gene showed less than a 1/3 of the lung improvement than those with the regular copies.

http://bit.ly/p3U87I  (Source / Study)