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Molecular analysis of activation-induced cytidine deaminase gene in immunoglobulin-E deficient patients.
Clinical & developmental immunology - 1 Jan 2008
Roa Sergio, Isidoro-Garcia Maria, Davila Ignacio, Laffond Elena, Lorente Felix, Gonzalez-Sarmiento Rogelio
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Understanding how class switch recombination (CSR) is regulated to produce immunoglobulin E (IgE) has become fundamental because of the dramatic increase in the prevalence of IgE-mediated hypersensitivity reactions. CSR requires the induction of the enzyme AICDA in B cells. Mutations in AICDA have been linked to Hyper-IgM syndrome (HIGM2), which shows absence of switching to IgE as well as to IgG and IgA....
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