Sentences with phrase «few gene defects»

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Professor Carola Vinuesa, Co-director of the Centre for Personalised Immunology, said research was showing lupus was primarily caused by defects in only one or a few genes.

For example, they identified SNVs in genes encoding the collagen proteins that make up bone and cartilage, and in genes where other mutations have caused defects similar to Ata's, such as fewer - than - normal ribs or short stature.