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根据今天发表在《美国医学会杂志 (JAMA)》上的一份报告,一些患有慢性鼻窦感染的人可能更容易患病,因为他们携带与导致囊性纤维化 (CF) 的相同基因突变。约翰·霍普金斯大学的研究人员发现,在因慢性鼻窦炎就诊霍普金斯大学的 147 名患者中,7% 的人携带一个导致 CF 的突变基因副本,该基因被称为 CFTR。

研究人员早就知道,当一个人从父母双方都遗传了 CFTR 基因时,就会导致 CF。“但我们长期以来一直想知道,仅仅携带一个突变的 CFTR 基因是否会对健康产生影响,”团队成员加里·R·卡廷说。根据新的结果,该团队估计,携带单个 CFTR 基因的个体患复发性鼻窦感染的几率是非携带者的两倍。“尽管如此,我们不建议所有患有慢性鼻窦问题的人都进行 CFTR 基因检测。这项研究仍处于早期阶段,”卡廷警告说。“然而,这些知识可能在治疗上证明是有用的。一些鼻窦炎患者可能会从为 CF 开发的治疗方法中获益。此外,基因检测可能使我们能够筛选出患有最严重慢性鼻窦炎的患者,这些患者可能会从专门针对其根本问题的疗法中获益。”

Kate Wong is an award-winning science writer and senior editor at 大众科学 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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