Several symptoms and laboratory findings within 48 h of hospital admission were associated with an earlier diagnosis, including fever, splenomegaly, and cytopenias, hypertriglyceridemia and/or hypofibrinogenemia, and haemophagocytosis, as well as elevated ferritin, ALT, TBil, APTT, PT, and INR. This evidence concerns the gene GPT and hypertriglyceridemia.