PLOS Papers Look At Vitamin D Metabolism, Chagas Diagnostic, Lymphangioleiomyomatosis Mutations

Dec 23, 2019

In PLOS Genetics, researchers at the Karolinska Institute and the University of Helsinki describe two loci with apparent ties to vitamin D metabolism or supplement response, based on a genome-wide association study involving more than 750 two-year-olds from Finland.

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