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Clinical follow-up of 11 Argentinian CD40L-deficient patients with 7 unique mutations including the so-called "milder" mutants.
Journal of clinical immunology - 1 Jul 2007
Danielian Silvia, Oleastro Matias, Eva Rivas Maria, Cantisano Claudio, Zelazko Marta
Abstract excerpt
CD40 ligand (CD40L) deficiency is an X-linked combined immunodeficiency characterized by impaired class switch recombination. We analyzed clinical and molecular findings in 11 Argentinian patients from seven unrelated families. The mean age at onset of symptoms was 1.1 years (0.5-3.0 years) and the 10 alive patients have a median age of 17 years. We identified two nonsense mutations, including R11X reported as a...
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