ALLMedicine™ Aicardi-goutieres Syndrome Center

Dec 12th, 2021 - A number of systemic autoinflammatory diseases arise from gain-of-function mutations in genes encoding IL-1-activating inflammasomes or cytoplasmic nucleic acid sensors including the receptor and sensor STING and result in increased IL-1 and type ...

Jul 26th, 2021 - Aicardi-Goutieres Syndrome (AGS) is a heterogeneous genetic syndrome, manifesting early as encephalopathy and is associated with abnormal neurologic findings, hepatosplenomegaly, elevated liver enzymes, thrombocytopenia and intracranial calcificat...

Jun 10th, 2021 - Adenosine deaminase acting on RNA (ADAR) catalyzes the posttranscriptional conversion of adenosine to inosine in double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), which can lead to the creation of missense mutations in coding sequences. Recent studies show that editin...

Jul 28th, 2019 - Restricted factor analysis (RFA) is a powerful method to test for uniform differential item functioning (DIF), but it may require empirically selecting anchor items to prevent inflated Type I error rates. We conducted a simulation study to compare...

Mar 16th, 2019 - TREX1 encodes a major cellular DNA exonuclease. Mutations of this gene in human cause cellular accumulation of DNA that triggers autoimmune diseases including Aicardi-Goutieres Syndrome (AGS) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We created a lu...