SYDNEY: An Australian-led international study has pinpointed more than 100 genetic risk factors that explain why some people suffer from asthma, hay fever and eczema.

The study is touted as the first of its kind “designed specifically to find genetic risk factors that are shared among the three most common allergic conditions,” according to a media release on science news portal Scimex,

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