Nephrogenetics on world kidney day.
Genetics provides both tools and challenges for the effort to understand how a set of molecular mechanisms play out at the organ and organismal levels. Implementing existing medical knowledge is an even bigger challenge, but both resource-rich and developing countries can make cost-effective health gains by promoting public awareness of kidney function.
D005823:Genetics; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000502:physiology*; D011634:Public Health