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Estandarización de la amplificación de una región codificante de APOL1 mediante RT-PCR en líneas celulares humanas.

Key takeaways

APOL1 is a gene whose risky versions raise the chance of kidney disease, mostly in people of West African ancestry. This work sets up a reliable lab method to copy and read part of that gene from human cells grown in a dish. It is a technique paper: it builds a tool for future research. It was done in cells, not people, and reports no health results.

Who did this work

Susana A. Rodríguez Jiménez · Gerardo Santos López · Oscar Castañeda Sánchez · Amado I. Grandes Blanco · Lilia Sánchez Minutti · Noe Velázquez Márquez · Dalia Molina Romero · Lorena Milflores Flores · Daniela Rodríguez Flores · Tania Estrada Jiménez · Ericka V. Limón Moreno · Luis Márquez Domínguez

Source

Paper · OpenAlex, CKD works · 2026-09-07
https://doi.org/10.62954/zm7bdn22