Insights into role of genetic variants in kidney disease
Sunday, January 11, 2015 - 23:50
in Health & Medicine
Among patients with a kidney disease called focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), those who had certain genetic variants tended to have more advanced disease when they were diagnosed, researchers report. Patients with the variants responded to immunosuppressant treatments just as well as other patients but tended to progress more rapidly to kidney failure.