Can a daughter gets asma from her father?
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RESEARCHERS in Oxford have found that the gene responsible for asthma, hay fever and other allergy-type illnesses is active only when inherited from the mother. If inherited from the father, the offspring is less likely to suffer from these illnesses.
The finding explains previous observations that children with mothers who suffer from asthma are more at risk of developing the condition than those whose fathers are asthma sufferers.
More recent studies have also suggested that the risk of allergies in young children is much greater when the mother is allergic than when the father is.
According to a report in the Lancet, the explanation may lie in a mechanism known as genomic imprinting which leads to some genes being switched off before conception. The majority of cells in the body contain two copies of our genes, one inherited from the father and the other from the mother. Often both copies work together, but sometimes only one copy is required and the other may be switched off.
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Due to genes from inherited mother
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