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Human ICOS deficiency abrogates the germinal center reaction and provides a monogenic model for common variable immunodeficiency
29 Dec 2005
Abstract excerpt
The homozygous deletion of the inducible costimulator (ICOS), an activation-induced member of the CD28 family on T cells, causes an antibody deficiency syndrome in affected humans. The identification of a total of 9 ICOS-deficient patients revealed that this monogenic disease comprises the full clinical phenotype described for common variable immunodeficiency (CVID), including recurrent bacterial infections,...
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