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A recent study found that women with the highest blood levels of anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) are more likely to have a successful birth following in vitro fertilisation (IVF) than women of a similar age with lower levels of this hormone. The researchers concluded that a higher AMH result might be a useful predictive tool for determining the chances of successful pregnancy and live birth following IVF.

Asthmatic children who have a specific genetic make-up (Arg16 genotype) determined by testing saliva, are predisposed to exacerbations when salmeterol, a medicine effective in most children, is used as an additional treatment to inhaled steroids. Researchers from Brighton and Dundee reported in Clinical Science on 8 January 2013 the results of a small randomised trial in which half of 62 asthmatic Scottish children with the Arg16 genotype took salmeterol and the other half took a different add-on treatment, montelukast. Over the next year those taking montelukast had fewer school absences for asthma and fewer exacerbations, showing that genetic testing can provide a personalised medicine approach to clinical management.