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Shattered chromosome cures woman of immune disease | Science/AAAS | News - 0 views

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Science article chromosomes chromosomal rearrangement shattering immune disorder chromosomal reassembly

shared by Lottie Peppers on 09 Feb 15 - No Cached

Lottie Peppers on 09 Feb 15

Call it a scientific oddity-or a medical miracle. A girl who grew up with a serious genetic immune disease was apparently cured in her 30s by one of her chromosomes shattering into pieces and reassembling. Scientists traced the woman's improvement to the removal of a harmful gene through this scrambling of DNA in one of her blood stem cells-a recently identified phenomenon that until now had only been linked to cancer.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Call it a scientific oddity-or a medical miracle. A girl who grew up with a serious genetic immune disease was apparently cured in her 30s by one of her chromosomes shattering into pieces and reassembling. Scientists traced the woman's improvement to the removal of a harmful gene through this scrambling of DNA in one of her blood stem cells-a recently identified phenomenon that until now had only been linked to cancer.</div>

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