GENES INVOLVED IN IMMUNE RELATED RESPONSES OBSERVED WITH ASTHMA

摘要

Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases (155 million people worldwide) and is rapidly increasing (20-50 % per decade), particularly in children (currently 10 % in The Netherlands). Asthma impairs the quality of life and is a major cause of absence from school and work. Asthma, if not treated properly, can be life threatening. The invention provides a nucleic acid library comprising genes or functional fragments thereof said genes are essentially capable of initiation and/or progression and/or suppression and/ or repression of an immune response.