Researcher IDs Narcolepsy as Autoimmune Disease; Discovery of 2 Gene Variants Could Lead to New Treatments, Stanford University Study
eMaxHealth -- Narcolepsy affects one in f 2000 individuals. Stanford researchers have found that narcolepsy is caused by a single immune cell. Autoimmune disease has long been suspected as the cause of narcolepsy, and the new study demonstrates for the first time that a variation of a T-cell gene causes narcolepsy.