Set of genes predicts severity of dengue
Posted on January 29th, 2019
There’s no such thing as a “good” case of dengue fever, but some are worse than others, and it’s difficult to determine which patients will make a smooth recovery and which may find their condition life-threatening.
Now, after scouring the gene expression of hundreds of patients infected with dengue virus — a mosquito-borne virus that can cause fever and joint pain, among other symptoms — scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found a set of 20 genes that predicts who is at the highest risk of progressing to a severe form of the illness.
Read more about this study here.
Professors Einav and Khatri’s work was supported by SPARK and the Maternal Child Health Research Institute at Stanford.
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