New deadly genetic disease in Russia’s Yakutia: Kids don’t live to 3yo

Fourteen children in Yakutia have died of a previously-unknown disease caused by mutations in multiple genes. 

The illness kills kids before they turn three as it progresses rapidly and
there’s no cure so far, according to the scientist who discovered it.

In total 16 children have been diagnosed with the genetic illness, says
Nadezhda Maksimova, head of a Yakutsk laboratory at the North-Eastern
Federal University who discovered the deadly disease.

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