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Novel mutation in the interferon-gamma-receptor gene and susceptibility to mycobacterial infections.
Scandinavian journal of immunology - 1 Aug 2006
Storgaard M, Varming K, Herlin T, Obel N
Abstract excerpt
In 1981 we presented a patient with Mycobacterium intracellulare osteomyelitis and depressed monocyte cytotoxicity. It is now demonstrated that the molecular defect was a never-before-described nucleotide deletion at position 794 (794delT) in the interferon-gamma-receptor alpha-1 gene. The genetic defect was passed on to his daughter who was diagnosed with non-tuberculous mycobacterial osteomyelitis at the age of...
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