New Clues To Mystery Childhood Illness: Kawasaki Disease

Monday, January 12, 2009 - 13:35 in Biology & Nature

A study looking at the entire human genome has identified new genes that appear to be involved in making some children more susceptible to Kawasaki disease, a serious illness that often leads to coronary artery disease, according to a new international study published in PLoS Genetics. This is the first genetic study of an infectious disease to look at the whole of the genome, rather than just selected genes.

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