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Clinical and genetic heterogeneity in Omenn syndrome and severe combined immune deficiency.
Pediatric transplantation - 1 Mar 2009
Gruber Tanja A, Shah Ami J, Hernandez Michelle, Crooks Gay M, Abdel-Azim Hisham, Gupta Sudhir, McKnight Sean, White Drew, Kapoor Neena, Kohn Donald B
Abstract excerpt
OS has been described as a clinical phenotype in infants characterized by SCID, diffuse erythroderma, and other distinct features. The pathogenesis is secondary to autologous, auto-reactive T cells produced as rare escapees from the SCID blockade. Mutations in either the RAG1 or RAG2 gene that lead to partial recombinase activity are responsible for many of the patients with these clinical features. We report on...
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