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A US genetic study has found that exposure to the nerve gas sarin is responsible for Gulf War syndrome: a variety of chronic symptoms that affected more than a quarter of Coalition troops deployed during the Gulf War in 1991.

The findings end a three-decade-old effort to pinpoint what prompted the cases, which scientists now conclude were linked to widespread bombings of Iraqi chemical weapons facilities that released sarin into the air.

Dr Robert Haley from the University of Texas southwestern medical centre led the research.

(Pic: Soldiers in the Gulf War; Credit: Getty Images)