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Severe congenital neutropenias.
Nature reviews. Disease primers - 8 Jun 2017
Skokowa Julia, Dale David C, Touw Ivo P, Zeidler Cornelia, Welte Karl
Abstract excerpt
Severe congenital neutropenias are a heterogeneous group of rare haematological diseases characterized by impaired maturation of neutrophil granulocytes. Patients with severe congenital neutropenia are prone to recurrent, often life-threatening infections beginning in their first months of life. The most frequent pathogenic defects are autosomal dominant mutations in ELANE, which encodes neutrophil elastase, and...
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