Simple Genetic Test For Assessing Osteoarthritis Risk?

British scientists are striving to unearth the genetic causes of arthritis by analyzing the DNA of 14,000 volunteers. They are hopeful their research will eventually lead to a simple test which will gauge your risk of developing severe forms of osteoarthritis and identify novel treatments that do not require joint replacement surgery - there are 120,000 knee or hip joint replacements each year in the UK. In the UK alone over two million elderly people suffer from osteoarthritis. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Bones on October 20th, 2007