Brussels, 10/12/2010 (Agence Europe) - Researchers funded by the EU have discovered a gene which is responsible for the development of respiratory disease, the results of a study on pet dogs, the European Commission announced on Thursday. This rare genetic disease, primary ciliary dyskinesis (PCD), affects one person out of every 20,000 and causes chronic respiratory infections. This discovery was made by the LUPA project, which collected and compared samples of DNA taken from pure-breed...