T cells of patients with the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome have a restricted defect in proliferative responses.

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The Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) is a disease of profound thrombocytopenia and severe immune defects caused by an unidentified defective X chromosome gene. In this study, T lymphocyte function is examined using a panel of allospecific WAS patient T cell lines, previously found to express the abnormal disease gene and the cytoarchitectural defect characteristic of the disease. Although T cell lines from normal...

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