Israeli and American Research Teams Close in on Genetic Risk Factors for Common Causes of Advanced Kidney Disease

18 February, 2010

In the current issue of the prestigious journal "Human Molecular Genetics", a research team led by Professor Karl Skorecki and Dr. Doron Behar working with Technion doctorate student Shay Tzur, and their colleagues at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, together with Dr. Walter Wasser, currently at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem Israel, and in collaboration research colleagues at Tel Aviv University and the National Institutes of Health in the USA, report finding the very strong predictive association of new markers within this gene, with common forms of end-stage kidney disease in different population groups.