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Distillery: Therapeutics - Metabolic disease

SciBX 1(9); doi:10.1038/scibx.2008.218
Published online March 27 2008

Solute carrier family 2 (facilitated glucose transporter), member 9 (SLC2A9)

A genome-wide association study identified a urate transporter protein that might contribute to high levels of serum uric acid and thus be a useful target for treating gout. Further details on the research, next steps and licensing status are discussed in the article.


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