That's Probably More Than You Wanted to Know About Your Liver

May 06, 2008

In work published today in PLoS Biology, researchers led by Eric Schadt at Merck have performed a genome-wide association study of gene expression in the human liver, validating a number of genes involved in diseases linked to malfunction of this organ.

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