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Role of Bruton's tyrosine kinase in B cell development.
Developmental immunology - 1 Jan 2001
Maas A, Hendriks R W
Abstract excerpt
X-linked agammaglobulinemia (XLA) is one of the most frequent inherited immunodeficiency diseases in man and is characterized by an almost complete arrest of B cell differentiation at the pre-B cell stage. The gene defective in XLA encodes the cytoplasmic signaling molecule Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk). Next to the CBA/N strain of mice, carrying a single amino acid substitution mutation in the Btk gene, which...
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