A novel FOXP3 mutation causing fetal akinesia and recurrent male miscarriages

Clinical Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 284-285

  Rae, William ^a   Gao, Yifang ^b   Bunyan, David ^c   Holden, Samantha ^a   Gilmour, Kimberly ^d   Patel, Sanjay ^e   Wellesley, Diana ^d   Williams, Anthony ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c SALISBURY DISTRICT HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust   (United Kingdom)

^e SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FOXP3 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; AKINESIA; CASE REPORT; CD3+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS HYDROPS; GENE MUTATION; HEART; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DYSREGULATION; IPEX SYNDROME; LETTER; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; PANCREATIC TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; ARTHROGRYPOSIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; RECURRENT ABORTION;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; ADULT; ARTHROGRYPOSIS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84942549141     PISSN: 15216616     EISSN: 15217035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clim.2015.09.006     Document Type: Letter

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