New Genetic Cause Of A Fatal Immune Disorder

Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 03:28 in Health & Medicine

Familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHL) is an inherited, fatal, immune disorder. Disease-causing mutations have been identified in several genes. Now, researchers have added a new gene to this list by determining that two distinct mutations in the gene that generates syntaxin-binding protein 2 cause disease in a subset of patients with FHL.

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