Gene Mutation Found That Increases Severity Of Multisystem Syndrome

Gene Mutation Found That Increases Severity Of Multisystem Syndrome: "'Scientists are going to have to think very hard before they discount genetic variation that appears not to directly cause a disease,' says the study's leader, Nicholas Katsanis, Ph.D., associate professor in the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins. 'The onus is on us to figure out how to dissect the effects of what appear to be silent genetic variants. I have a greatly renewed respect for the complexity of the genome, for the subtle ways that genes and gene products interact with each other.'"