Researchers identify the gene responsible for a rare form of congenital anaemia

The latest electronic edition of the journal Nature Genetics reports the discovery of a new gene responsible for congenital sideroblastic anaemia, a rare disease, mainly characterised by the presence of ringed sideroblasts in the patients' bone marrow. This Genome Canada project, co-directed by Dr Mark Samuels, an investigator with the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Centre and a professor at the Universite de Montreal Department of Medicine, is being conducted under the Atlantic Medical Genetics and Genomics Initiative (AMGGI)...

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