Abstract
Aicardi-Goutières syndrome is a mendelian mimic of congenital infection and also shows overlap with systemic lupus erythematosus at both a clinical and biochemical level. The recent identification of mutations in TREX1 and genes encoding the RNASEH2 complex and studies of the function of TREX1 in DNA metabolism have defined a previously unknown mechanism for the initiation of autoimmunity by interferon-stimulatory nucleic acid. Here we describe mutations in SAMHD1 as the cause of AGS at the AGS5 locus and present data to show that SAMHD1 may act as a negative regulator of the cell-intrinsic antiviral response.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 829-832 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Nature Genetics |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 2009 |
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