This Week in PLoS Medicine: Genes in hep C treatment; Predicting trauma recovery; African doctoral programs & more
Four new articles published this week in PLoS Medicine and an update posted to the World Health Report Collection page as well.
Vijayaprakash Suppiah and colleagues show that genotyping hepatitis C patients for the IL28B, HLA-C, and KIR genes improves the ability to predict whether or not patients will respond to antiviral treatment.
By studying gene expression changes over time in a cohort of trauma patients, Keyur Desai and colleagues identify genes and pathways strongly associated with longer-term complications, which could lead to improved outcome prediction in the first 80 hours after injury.
Imelda Bates and colleagues developed and validated an evidence-based tool for evaluating doctoral programmes in African universities.
Samson Muchina Kinyanjui and colleagues from the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme discuss how they modified their informed consent processes by taking into account local social, cultural, and economic contexts in the design and administration of consent forms.
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