Science announced strange disease that caused people to suffer like

Those are unfortunate people who suffer from a strange disease.

Experts from the Boston Children's Hospital (USA) observed patients with erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP) - a rare blood disorder. The cause of EPP comes from mutated genes, causing the amount of oxygen in the blood to be affected and making the patient's skin allergic to the sun.

This is a rare blood disorder.

More precisely, EPP has affected the production of heme - a component of hemoglobin. Regular heme will combine with iron molecule, making blood red. Without heme, oxygen in the blood will be alarming. In other words, they suffer from anemia.

According to experts, EPP usually develops right from a young age, making the patient's skin always pale and sensitive to light. If exposed to the sun for too long will cause pain, burning - like vampire depictions.

"People with EPP suffer from chronic anemia , making them tired, pale, pale, and sensitive to light and unable to go out during the day" - quoted Dr. Barry Paw, research director. assist.

"Even when there is no sun, the environment still has enough UV rays to make them burn at the exposed parts."

People with EPP cannot go out during the day.Exposure to the sun will cause the body to burn.

The fate associated with EPP patients is always in the home and blood transfusions, in order to recover the insufficient amount of heme.

But that is the story of the present time. In ancient times, the drinking of animal blood also had the same effect. They can only do that during the night, and it seems these are the elements that make up the vampire myth.

Identify the gene that causes EPP

One of the key findings of Paw and colleagues is that they found the mutant gene that caused EPP.

By deeply interfering with the gene sequence of an EPP family, they found a mutant form of the CLPX gene - responsible for protein in mitochondria. This mutation is the cause of the "vampire" disease .

"This study has clarified the complex genetic mechanism behind heme formation. Just a mutation at a certain scale is enough to trigger genetic disorders." - Sharing paw.

The mutation of CLPX is the cause of vampire disease.

Paw said that identifying mutant genes related to EPP will create a foundation, helping us find a way to treat it and related diseases in the future.

"Knowing that vampires are not real, but we need a method to help people who have that disease live better."

The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA).