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Compound heterozygous mutation of Rag1 leading to Omenn syndrome.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Matthews Adam G W, Briggs Christine E, Yamanaka Keiichi, Small Trudy N, Mooster Jana L, Bonilla Francisco A, Oettinger Marjorie A, Butte Manish J
Abstract excerpt
Omenn syndrome is a primary immunodeficiency disorder, featuring susceptibility to infections and autoreactive T cells and resulting from defective genomic rearrangement of genes for the T cell and B cell receptors. The most frequent etiologies are hypomorphic mutations in "non-core" regions of the Rag1 or Rag2 genes, the protein products of which are critical members of the cellular apparatus for V(D)J...
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