Dan Belsky, a DuPRI postdoctoral fellow, led a study of asthma risk featured by Medical News Today and published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal. Using data from the longitudinal Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study, Belsky and his colleagues - including DuPRI’s Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E. Moffitt and Karen Sugden - linked purported asthma-risk genes to real-life outcomes in more than 800 Dunedin study participants, demonstrating that the genotypes could be used to predict a child’s risk of developing asthma better than family history alone and early enough to take preventive measures.
