Maria Eugenia Bianchi's Page

Hi Maria,
Thank you for your kind response, also, that to Mario to whom you had responded concerning his query as to your axreening for PKU among members of your aboriginal population. I am in the process of attempting to upload an article that I had written, published in the British journal,
Ancient Biomolecules, concerning a method I had devised for the nondestructive recovery of ancient DNA from teeth. While
the work addressed by this article was with
mtDNA, (the population of study was from the Heiheru cemetery at the Anyang site in China, the third capital of the Shang Dynasty (1047 -- 1300 BC), the signal from the dentin-derived aDNA may be sufficient such that nuclear DNA assays may be performed on remains of a more recent vintage. Studies of patients' antecedants may be useful to gain insights as to patterns of heritability of certain genetic markers.

Wishing you a happy and healthy New Year!

Dra. Bianchi,

Si no le molesta corresponder en Espanol. En primer lugar le agradezco el remitirme la copia de us estudio. Soy un Nefrologo y tengo una practica en Maryland en USA. No conozco ningun nephrologo Argentino en esta area pero conozco varios cardiologos Argentinos. Este es el pais de los contrastes, como Ud sabra tenenmos una poblacion marginal de latino americanos que reciben tratamientos limitados y parecen tener riesgo mas alto para desarrolar diabetes, insuficiencia renal y enfermedad cardiovascular y a una edad temprana comparado a la poblacion general. Y la pregunta es cual es la causa de la diferencia. Son factores geneticos o factores ambientales, o una mezcla de los dos. La poblacion que Ud estudio tine mas riego para tener syndrome metabolico sin tener diabetes. La pregunta es si esta poblacion tiene prediabetes definida por la tolerancia a la glucose.

Maria Eugenia thank you for sharing with us your story. I find you work with the aborigen population in Argentina fascinating. I had the oportunity to read the summary of your article "Epidemiology of Renal and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Toba Aborigines" and the conclussions are significant because it appear that CKD in related to obesity, hypertension but not diabetes. Do you mind to send me the full article?