Marco De Andrea, in the previous article, has discussed interferon at length, and now I
would like to present some data concerning the relationship between interferon and the
Aicardi-GoutieÁres syndrome. There are two types of interferon, and the interferon which we
are interested in for this syndrome is type I interferon, specifically the alpha type. Interferons
are proteins produced by the host in response to viral infection. Interferonalpha and-beta
(type I) are not normally detected in blood of healthy people but are found mostly in different …