New Disease VEXAS Syndrome Manifests After COVID and Vaccination
Symptoms of VEXAS syndrome, first discovered in 2020, are highly variable and nonspecific.
New Disease VEXAS Syndrome Manifests After COVID and Vaccination
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Marina Zhang
By Marina Zhang
1/12/2024
Updated:
1/13/2024
Some vaccinated and COVID-infected people are reportedly being diagnosed with a new type of disease called VEXAS syndrome—an autoinflammatory disease discovered in 2020.
Many people are familiar with autoimmune diseases, often caused by dysfunction among the adaptive immune cells, while problems within the innate immune system often cause autoinflammatory diseases.
VEXAS syndrome—short for vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X-linked, autoinflammatory, somatic syndrome—is caused by mutations in the innate immune cells, a somatic mutation in the UBA1 gene found on the X chromosome.
Somatic mutations cannot be inherited, meaning individuals acquire this mutation later in life.
The mutation affects the stem cells in the bone marrow. The cells mature into specialized immune cells that circulate within the bloodstream.
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