Roughly half of children with asthma will emerge from it by the time they become young adults -- but until now, no-one knows how to determine who will be the lucky ones.
A gene scorecard may one day help predict which youngsters are likely to grow out of childhood asthma and which will have the disease in adulthood, a study said on Thursday.
Asthma is one of the commonest disorders among children in developed countries and is spreading fast in emerging economies.
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