The term cellulitis is commonly used to indicate a nonnecrotizing inflammation of the skin and subcutaneous tissues, a process usually related to acute infection that does not involve the fascia or muscles. Cellulitis is characterized by localized pain, swelling, tenderness, erythema, and warmth.
In addition to confirming the previously identified asthma gene located on chromosome 17, researchers found another gene located on chromosome 1q31 was associated with an increased risk of childhood asthma in both children of European and African ancestry.
Oberâs team found that one of the mutations in the YKL-40 gene also correlated with a diagnosis of asthma and with impaired lung function, suggesting that increased levels of YKL-40 are part of the causal pathway that leads to asthma.