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Article: Mayo Researchers Help Discover Genetic Cause for Primary Biliary Cirrhosis.
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- May 27, 2009
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Byline: Mayo Clinic
ROCHESTER, Minn., May 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have discovered a novel molecular path that predisposes patients to develop primary biliary cirrhosis (http://www.mayoclinic.org/primary-biliary-cirrhosis/), a disease that mainly affects women and slowly destroys their livers. Primary biliary cirrhosis has no known cause.
The finding, significant because it is a first step toward developing a targeted treatment and a cure, will be published in the June 11, 2009, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (http://content.nejm.org/).
"Now that we better understand the molecular basis of primary biliary cirrhosis, ...