Researchers compile first gene database of birth defects
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China’s first gene database of birth defects is being compiled in north China’s Shanxi Province and will be completed by the end of the year, according to Guo Xingping, director of the province’s population and family planning commission research institute.
Researchers are correlating data from more than 1,200 blood samples.
Shanxi has China’s highest birth defect rate at around 1.9 percent, with the national average around 1.3 percent.
“Setting up of the database is just the start,” said researcher Wang Wanheng.
Wang said the database would deepen knowledge and recognition of the relationship between defects and genes and samples from other provinces and regions will be added in the next five years.
About 900,000 children are born with birth defects in China each year.
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