Girls Lacking The Protein ITK At Risk From Fatal Viral Infection

Saturday, April 11, 2009 - 20:21 in Health & Medicine

One of the most common viruses to infect humans is EBV. Although most people show no or few signs of infection, some develop glandular fever and boys with mutations in either one of two genes on the X-chromosome (SAP and XIAP) develop a fatal lymphoproliferative disease.

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