Third genetic link to osteoarthritis discovered
Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 14:30
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have revealed the third gene associated with osteoarthritis, a painful and debilitating disease that afflicts four out of ten people over the age of 70. The new link to osteoarthritis was found without any new genome sequencing: instead, the study included 7.2 million variants from the 1000 Genomes Project to increase the power of a genome-wide association scan.