Using samples from an international collaboration, Bank on a Cure, researchers have been able to scan gene chips for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that may be associated with myeloma. Myeloma aka multiple myeloma affects more than 250,000 people worldwide and is a cancer of blood plasma cells found in multiple areas of the bone marrow.
Bank on a Cure is the world’s first repository of myeloma-patient DNA collected globally through large clinical trial groups, clinical centers, hospitals, and individual patients. In a recent study presented at the 2005 American Society of Hematology, researchers found:

SNPs that increase production of interleukin …read more