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No mutations of SAP/SH2D1A/DSHP and perforin genes in patients with Epstein-Barr virus-associated hemophagocytic syndrome in Japan.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Oct 2001
Ma X, Okamura A, Yosioka M, Ishiguro N, Kikuta H, Kobayashi K
Abstract excerpt
Recently, mutations of two genes, SAP/SH2D1A/DSHP and perforin genes, have been identified in two fatal inherited lymphoproliferative diseases, X-linked lymphoproliferative disease and familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, respectively. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated hemophagocytic syndrome, a fulminant non-inherited T-cell lymphoproliferative disease, is relatively common in Japan and is extremely...
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