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Some Severe Covid-19 Cases May be Due to Faulty Genes, Misguided Antibodies: Scientists – Yahoo Singapore News
More than 10 per cent of young and healthy people who develop severe COVID19 have misguided antibodies that attack not the virus, but the immune system itself, and another 3.5 per cent may carry a specific kind of genetic mutation, according to a new study. T…
More than 10 per cent of young and healthy people who develop severe COVID-19 have misguided antibodies that attack not the virus, but the immune system itself, and another 3.5 per cent may carry a specific kind of genetic mutation, according to a new study. The research, published in the journal Science, noted that both groups of patients lack type I interferon a set of 17 proteins crucial for protecting cells and the body from viruses.
These proteins, according to the researchers from the Roc…
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