Scientists Identify Cause of Job’s Syndrome – September 19, 2007

Posted by National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases on September 20th, 2007 at 07:00am

The rare immunodeficiency disorder known as Job’s syndrome is caused by a specific genetic mutation that both overstimulates and understimulates the human immune system, leading to harmful bacterial and fungal infections and the physical features characteristic of the syndrome, according to two independent groups of scientists, one from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the other from the Tokyo Medical and Dental University.

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