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Researchers discover treatment for severe auto inflammatory syndrome – News-Medical.Net
Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine used a novel genetic sequencing technology to identify the genetic cause of–and a treatment for–a previously unknown severe auto inflam-matory syndrome affecting an 18-year-old girl since infancy.
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Aug 4 2020
Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine used a novel genetic sequencing technology to identify the genetic cause of–and a treatment for a previously unknown severe auto inflammatory syndrome affecting an 18-year-old girl since infancy.
The technology, tailored to the patient’s own genetic code at a single cell level, helped the re-searchers characterize an unknown mutation in a gene called JAK1 that caused the patient’s immune system to be pe…
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