The autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome: an experiment of nature involving lymphocyte apoptosis.

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Autoimmune lymphproliferative syndrome (ALPS) is a human disorder that has been characterized in the past two decades at both a functional and a genetic level. The underlying basis for this disorder is a defect in lymphocyte apoptosis that alters immune homeostasis resulting in an expansion of a normally rare circulating lymphocyte, the alpha beta double negative T cell. The abnormality in Fas mediated apoptosis...

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