new clues to childhood illness: Kawasaki Disease

Researches from UC San Diego School of medicine Department of Pediatrics, University of Western Australia, Genome Institute of Singapore , Emma Children's hospital, The Netherlands , and Imperial College London, UK all helped indentify new genes that involved in making some children more susceptible to kawasaki disease (KD.) Kawasaki disease is a serious illness that leads to artery disease. This disease is claimbed to run in families. It causes high fever, rash, red eyes and lips, swollen glands and hands, and feet with peeling skin. The researchers at University of California in San Diego are trying to understand the step by step development of disease and chain of events leading to it.http://brightsurf.com/news/headlines/42394/new_clues_to_mystery_childhood_illness_kawasaki_disease.html