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Clinical and genetic profiles of patients with X-linked agammaglobulinemia from southeast Turkey: Novel mutations in BTK gene.
Allergologia et immunopathologia - 1 Jan 2000
Doğruel D, Serbes M, Şaşihüseyinoğlu A Ş, Yılmaz M, Altıntaş D U, Bişgin A
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BACKGROUND: X-linked agammaglobulinemia (XLA) is characterized by absent or severely reduced B cells, low or undetectable immunoglobulin levels, and clinically by extracellular bacterial infections which mainly compromise the respiratory tract. We aimed to analyze the clinical, immunological and genetic characteristics of 22 male children with XLA. METHODS: Twenty-two children with XLA from 12 unrelated families...
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