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| | Business Wire : Sequana discovers asthma gene. @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | The discovery, made through Sequana's strategic alliance with Boehringer Ingelheim, will provide new clues into improved diagnosis and treatment of asthma, the leading cause of hospitalization and absenteeism in the United States. |
 | | "Sequana's gene discovery is perhaps this century's most important finding in the etiology of asthma," remarked Richard D. O'Connor, M.D., chief of the Division of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology at Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. |
 | | In only 2-1/2 years, researchers at Sequana were able to isolate the gene, the most common |
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