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Prenatal diagnosis of RAG-deficient Omenn syndrome.
Prenatal diagnosis - 1 Jan 2000
Villa A, Bozzi F, Sobacchi C, Strina D, Fasth A, Pasic S, Notarangelo L D, Vezzoni P
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in recombination activating genes (RAG) 1 and 2 have been found to cause Omenn syndrome (OS), a severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) with a peculiar phenotype. Here we report the prenatal diagnosis performed in three OS patients. Mutations were detected in the probands as well as in their parents by genomic sequencing of the complete coding regions of both RAG 1 and RAG 2, which are contained in a...
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