TACI mutation in Good's Syndrome: In search of a genetic basis

Clinical Immunology

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 27-30

  Sáenz Cuesta, Matías ^a,d   Martínez Pomar, Natalia ^b   de Gracia, Javier ^c   Echaniz, Pilar ^a   Villegas, Eduardo ^b   Prada, Álvaro ^a   Otaegui, David ^d   Matamoros, Núria ^b   Cuadrado, Emilio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DONOSTIA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SON ESPASES   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^d BIODONOSTIA HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; TRANSMEMBRANE ACTIVATOR AND CAML INTERACTOR;

COMMON VARIABLE IMMUNODEFICIENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SANFILIPPO SYNDROME; THYMOMA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CD4-CD8 RATIO; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; THYMOMA; TRANSMEMBRANE ACTIVATOR AND CAML INTERACTOR PROTEIN;

EID: 84865095426     PISSN: 15216616     EISSN: 15217035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clim.2012.07.014     Document Type: Letter

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