"http://www.hipofam.org/" The Association for the Information and the Research in Familial Hypomagnesemia (HIPOFAM) has given 15,000 euros to the Kidney Physiopatology research group of the Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) to investigate this rare disease.With this contribution, the group leaded by Dr Anna Meseguer will hire a junior researcher who will be fully dedicated to the research in Familial Hypomagnesemia, as part of a project coordinated by Dr Gema Ariceta, responsible of the Paediatric Nephrology Service at the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital. The project, funded by the Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria, has the objective of ultrasequencing the RNAm and the microRNAs obtained from exosomes of patients with familial hypomagnesemia, hypercalciuria and nephrocalcinosis with known mutations in the claudina 19 gene.The familial hypomagnesemia affects the kidney because, due to a protein malfunction, the organ doesn’t reabsorb the magnesium. That produces the magnesium is expelled through urine and its blood level is very low.If you want, you can also "http://www.yoinvestigo.org/colabora-vhir-donacio.php?id=99 " contribute.