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Home - OMRF News - Archives for PLOS Genetics

PLOS Genetics

OMRF discovery could stop deadly blood vessel hemorrhaging

December 13, 2013

A protein is key to the structural integrity surrounding blood vessels.

Filed Under: Diseases, Featured News, News Tagged With: AAA, abdominal aortic aneurysm, aneurysm, CDH4, Courtney, courtney griffin, extracellular, Florea, Griffin, Lupu, matrix, OMRF, PLOS Genetics, scientist-news

Genetics show possible explanation for lupus disparity

March 14, 2013

Findings may show why lupus risk is higher in African Americans

Filed Under: Diseases, News, Research News Tagged With: admixture mapping, African Americans, ancestry, genetic ancestry, genetics, IFIH1, lupus, lupus genetics, Nath, PLOS Genetics, scientist-news, Swapan, Swapan Nath

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