Gene for devastating kidney disease discovered

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - 20:14 in Health & Medicine

A genetic discovery offers new hope for a better treatment for a mysterious, devastating kidney disease that's the second leading cause of kidney failure in children. The disease forces children and young adults onto dialysis and, all too often, kidney transplant -- only to see the disease recur in the transplanted kidney, sometimes within hours.

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