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BTK mutations in patients with X-linked agammaglobulinemia: lack of correlation between presence of peripheral B lymphocytes and specific mutations.
Human mutation - 1 Dec 2000
Tao L, Boyd M, Gonye G, Malone B, Schwaber J
Abstract excerpt
X-linked agammaglobulinemia (XLA) is a human antibody deficiency that results from mutation of the tyrosine kinase btk. We tested the hypothesis that XLA patients who varied from the classic phenotype of XLA by presence of normal or near normal number of peripheral B lymphocytes would have a set of mutations of BTK that is different from the mutations found in patients without peripheral B lymphocytes. The...
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