The Nation - News from Oct. 10, 1985
Researchers who were “fishing in the dark” have stumbled onto a genetic test for a kidney disease that afflicts 400,000 Americans and is responsible for one in 10 kidney dialysis patients. The preliminary finding should soon lead to a test that would diagnose the disease--an inherited ailment called polycystic kidney disease--before symptoms appear, which is usually in middle age, researcher Kay Davies of the University of Oxford in England said at a scientific meeting in Salt Lake City.
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