Scientists perform large asian genome-wide association study on kidney disease
Thursday, December 29, 2011 - 06:00
in Biology & Nature
Singapore and China scientists, headed by Dr Liu Jianjun, Senior Group Leader and Associate Director of Human Genetics at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and Dr Yu Xueqing, a nephrologist at the 1st Affiliated Hospital of the Sun Yat-Sen University, have identified new susceptibility genes for the kidney disease Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy (IgAN). This discovery, reported in the advance online issue of Nature Genetics on December 25, 2011, brings scientists closer to understanding the disease and working towards its cure.