We report a genome-wide association study of IgA nephropathy, a main cause of kidney failure. All subjects were of Chinese Han ancestry, of which 1,194 were cases and 902 controls. Genomic DNA samples extracted from whole blood were genotyped on the Illumina 610 Quad platform.
Robust and efficient hosts are necessary to facilitate advances in biotechnology. We unveil Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain XP as a promising new microbial chassis owing to its high growth rate and robustness. This strain has a doubling time of 48.2 min, which is 12.8 min faster than the...
This project aims to conduct genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in two anatomically different upper gastrointestinal (UGI) cancer sites in two populations with distinctly different disease rates and genetic profiles. One population has very high rates for both esophageal squamous cel...