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Gene therapy for severe combined immunodeficiency.
Annual review of medicine - 1 Jan 2005
Cavazzana-Calvo Marina, Lagresle Chantal, Hacein-Bey-Abina Salima, Fischer Alain
Abstract excerpt
Studies of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), a group of rare monogenic disorders, have provided key findings about the physiology of immune system development. The common characteristic of these diseases is the occurrence of a block in T cell differentiation, always associated with a direct or indirect impairment of B cell immunity. The resulting combined immunodeficiency is responsible for the clinical...
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