This one family, in Ogden, Utah, has watched as five children in two generations have died from a mysterious disease that science could not explain.. Thanks to huge leaps being made in DNA sequencing and in computer programs to decipher genetic code, researchers were able to find the gene for this disease in just sixteen months.
If approved, its drug code named LAF237 could provide additional ammunition in the fight against a disease that afflicts 18 million people in the U.S., and that is likely to rise with the obesity epidemic.