Is asthma hereditary? I dont think that it is, but I am arguing w/ someone about it.. What do you think?
2007-05-12 10:15:30 · 22 answers · asked by You don't need to know that just yet... 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Asthma is a complex disease, there is no one gene that determines if a person has or does not have asthma; asthma could be called a “polygenetic” disorder
Thus, asthma is not controlled by a “recessive gene” or a “dominant gene” – it’s much more complex and there is still much doctors and scientists do not know about asthma
It is more likely that people who have asthma inherited factors that made them inclined to develop asthma, rather than any one gene that directly caused asthma
This means that if your parent(s) have asthma, you will not necessarily develop asthma
A child who has one parent with asthma has a 15-25 percent chance of developing asthma
Experts believe people develop asthma because of a genetic predisposition toward asthma combined with factors in the environment
Studies of twins who have asthma show about 50 percent of the risk is related to genetic factors and 50 percent is related to factors in the environment
2007-05-12 10:22:19 · answer #1 · answered by P-Nut 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2016-07-27 06:07:54 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I am a third generation asthma sufferer in my family and there are more suffering with it under me. It sure seems to run in my family. I believe the hereditary make up of genes and cells would transpose into the next and next and next generation. Wouldn' t you?
ps,,,,I am sitting here at my computer with my mask on breathing in my asthma medication as I answer this question so I do have some experience with asthma.
2007-05-12 10:20:24 · answer #3 · answered by missellie 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My friend has a son with asthma. Nobody else in the family has it. I don't believe it would be hereditary.
2007-05-12 10:31:27 · answer #4 · answered by Breezey is saying HAPPY BIRTHDAY 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My asthma nurse told me a few years ago that asthma isn't hereditary.
2007-05-12 10:19:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is. My grandfather had asthma, my father has asthma, and I have asthma. I was dianogised with Bronchidis Asthma when I was younger. That has mostly gone away. Now it has changed into exercise induced asthma. My two sisters, however do not have asthma. It skipped my older sister and got me.
If it isn't, that is one heck of a coinsidence.
2007-05-12 10:18:56 · answer #6 · answered by Kagome 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think so, my mom has it, and so do two of my sisters, and I have it slightly. Also, when they ask for your history at the doctor's and the hospital, they ask if family members have asthma. But there are different types of asthma, and one kind comes from being too out of shape. But I think scientists aren't sure.
2007-05-12 10:20:48 · answer #7 · answered by the_blue_violinist 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It may run in families, but it seems the physiology is hereditary not the illness. At least that was the consensus I got from the web pages I looked at.
SO, in a way, you're both right.
2007-05-12 10:20:54 · answer #8 · answered by Kaia 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Its not hereditary, my mom has asthma but I don't.
2007-05-12 10:21:43 · answer #9 · answered by WinoJunko 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
you need to hunt for scientific advice, yet there is this manner of factor as workout led to allergies. Fluid and swelling on your mucus membrane in the time of the exertion of workout could reason your vessels in the lung to constrict, bringing on respiration problems.
2016-11-27 21:49:49 · answer #10 · answered by days 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋