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A team from Shandong Provincial Institute of Dermatology and Venereology in E China has identified two new risk variants near IL23R and RAB 32 genes that are responsible for the disease,louboutin pas cher, according to a report published online Monday in the scientific journal Nature Genetics.
The study involved more than 10,louboutin,000 samples being taken from leprosy sufferers and healthy test subjects and analysed.
2011-10-24 20:00:10.0Scientists make breakthrough in leprosy treatmentleprosy treatment1158963Society2@webnews/enpproperty-->Leprosy is a chronic nerve-killing disease that leads to problems with patients' skin,louboutin, feet,casque beats, hands,ralph lauren, legs and eyes. More than 200,abercrombie,000 newly-contracted leprosy cases are reported worldwide every year,beats by dre, and China has around one tenth of the world's sufferers.
Knowing that the two gene variants influence susceptibility to leprosy could allow doctors to diagnose the disease in sufferers earlier in its outset,christian louboutin, as well as to develop new treatments. A genetic database could now be built up to predict those people particularly susceptible to leprosy,abercrombie and fitch, said Zhang Furen,louboutin pas cher, the leader of the research team.
JINAN - Chinese scientists have made a breakthrough that could lead to more effective treatments for leprosy.
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