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根據今天發表在《美國醫學會雜誌 (JAMA)》上的一份報告,一些患有慢性鼻竇感染的人可能更容易患病,因為他們攜帶與導致囊性纖維化 (CF) 的相同基因突變。約翰·霍普金斯大學的研究人員發現,在因慢性鼻竇炎就診霍普金斯大學的 147 名患者中,7% 的人攜帶一個導致 CF 的突變基因副本,該基因被稱為 CFTR。

研究人員早就知道,當一個人從父母雙方都遺傳了 CFTR 基因時,就會導致 CF。“但我們長期以來一直想知道,僅僅攜帶一個突變的 CFTR 基因是否會對健康產生影響,”團隊成員加里·R·卡廷說。根據新的結果,該團隊估計,攜帶單個 CFTR 基因的個體患複發性鼻竇感染的機率是非攜帶者的兩倍。“儘管如此,我們不建議所有患有慢性鼻竇問題的人都進行 CFTR 基因檢測。這項研究仍處於早期階段,”卡廷警告說。“然而,這些知識可能在治療上證明是有用的。一些鼻竇炎患者可能會從為 CF 開發的治療方法中獲益。此外,基因檢測可能使我們能夠篩選出患有最嚴重慢性鼻竇炎的患者,這些患者可能會從專門針對其根本問題的療法中獲益。”

Kate Wong is an award-winning science writer and senior editor at 大眾科學 focused on evolution, ecology, anthropology, archaeology, paleontology and animal behavior. She is fascinated by human origins, which she has covered for more than 25 years. Recently she has become obsessed with birds. Her reporting has taken her to caves in France and Croatia that Neandertals once called home, to the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana in search of the oldest stone tools in the world, to Madagascar on an expedition to unearth ancient mammals and dinosaurs, to the icy waters of Antarctica, where humpback whales feast on krill, and on a "Big Day" race around the state of Connecticut to find as many bird species as possible in 24 hours. Kate is co-author, with Donald Johanson, of Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins. She holds a bachelor of science degree in biological anthropology and zoology from the University of Michigan. Follow Wong on X (formerly Twitter) @katewong

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