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Recent progress in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with defects in early B-cell development.
Current opinion in pediatrics - 1 Dec 1999
Minegishi Y, Rohrer J, Conley M E
Abstract excerpt
Mutation detection for X-linked agammaglobulinemia (XLA) has revealed the heterogeneity of the clinical phenotype of patients with defects in Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk), the gene that is abnormal in XLA. Over 50% of patients with mutations in Btk have no family history of the disease because their cases are the first manifestation of a new mutation in their family. In 10% to 20% of patients, the serum...
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