In Yakutia, opened a new deadly disease – Arguments and Facts

Moscow, October 19 – AiF-Moscow.

The head of educational and scientific laboratory “Genomic Medicine” Medical Institute NEFU Nadezhda Maximova has opened a new genetic disease, according to RIA Novosti.

«Now we just study in this respect a new and very severe disease in which the children live a maximum of three years because of the irreversible metabolic disorders. Of the sixteen patients we found two alive today, “- said Maximov.

The new disease was the third on account of the scientist. In 2005, she opened SOPH-syndrome, which is carried by every hundredth of Yakutia, and in 2010 – “Yakut stunting syndrome».

It is noted that genetic abnormalities usually appear within isolated groups. Often the cause of the mutation is the existence of harmful plants near the residence.

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