NIH-Funded Study Connect Gene Variant to Response to Asthma Drugs

NIH-Funded Study Connect Gene Variant to Response to Asthma Drugs
http://www.nih.gov/news/health/sep2011/nhlbi-26.htm

"A genetic variant may explain why some people with asthma do not respond well to inhaled corticosteroids, the most widely prescribed medicine for long-term asthma control. Researchers found that asthma patients who have two copies of a specific gene variant responded only one-third as well to steroid inhalers as those with two copies of the regular gene."