New LUPUS Genes Discovered on April 4th, 2012 Thanks to OMRF

Thanks to an international team of researchers and scientists from Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, they discovered three genes that "show statistical significance for lupus risk,” and  “We’ve also turned up another 11 regions we think might be related to lupus, but those need more study.” says  the study’s lead author, and OMRF scientist Christopher Lessard, Ph.D according to new research published in the April 6 issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics describes three lupus genes discovered by OMRF researchers as part of the largest study of its kind.  They started out in 2009 and made this headway after the analysis of more than 17,000 genetic samples from people of several ethnic groups.  This is definitely the beginning to finding a cure.  Read more at their site Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation  Not LIKE HUNDREDS OF OTHER NEWS AND MEDIA OUTLETS REPORTING THE NEWS, OURBLOGGERMAN WANTS TO GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE....see below where the funding came and the name of the actual participants....

THE FUNDING CAME FROM

Funded by grants from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Center for Research Resources, the Lupus Research Institute, the Alliance for Lupus Research, the Korean Healthcare Technology R&D Project, the Arthritis National Research Foundation Eng Tan Scholar Award, the Arthritis Foundation, the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Association Against Rheumatism, the Fundacion Instituto de Salud Carlos III, the Wenner Gren Foundation, Arthritis Research UK, the Wellcome Trust, Kirkland Scholar Award, Wake Forest University Health Sciences Center for Public Health Genomics, the European Science Foundation, and the Federico Wilhelm Agricola Foundation Research grant.

THE SCIENTIST INVOLVED

OMRF scientists Courtney Montgomery, Ph.D., Marta Alarcon, Ph.D., Joan Merrill, M.D., Judith James, M.D., Ph.D., Hal Scofield, M.D., John Ice, M.D., Indra Adrianto, Ph.D., and Astrid Rasmussen, M.D., Ph.D. contributed to the study.