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Reticular dysgenesis (aleukocytosis) is caused by mutations in the gene encoding mitochondrial adenylate kinase 2.
Nature genetics - 1 Jan 2009
Pannicke Ulrich, Hönig Manfred, Hess Isabell, Friesen Claudia, Holzmann Karlheinz, Rump Eva-Maria, Barth Thomas F, Rojewski Markus T, Schulz Ansgar, Boehm Thomas, Friedrich Wilhelm, Schwarz Klaus
Abstract excerpt
Human severe combined immunodeficiencies (SCID) are phenotypically and genotypically heterogeneous diseases. Reticular dysgenesis is the most severe form of inborn SCID. It is characterized by absence of granulocytes and almost complete deficiency of lymphocytes in peripheral blood, hypoplasia of the thymus and secondary lymphoid organs, and lack of innate and adaptive humoral and cellular immune functions,...
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