Discovery of altered genes may aid lupus knowledge
Some proteins fail to control immunity for sufferers of disease.
Researchers Patrick Gaffney and Kathy Moser of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation have discovered a variation in a particular gene that may lead to many of the immune system problems in people suffering from lupus.
The researchers said the gene encoding for a protein are comparable to the brakes of a car. In patients with lupus, the protein fails to turn off the immune system response resulting in the immune...
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