Accuracy of flow cytometric perforin screening for detecting patients with FHL due to PRF1 mutations

Blood

Volumn 126, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 1858-1859

  Abdalgani, Manar ^b   Filipovich, Alexandra H ^b   Choo, Sharon ^a   Zhang, Kejian ^b   Gifford, Carrie ^b   Villanueva, Joyce ^b   Bleesing, Jack J ^b   Marsh, Rebecca A ^b  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERFORIN; PRF1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFANT; LETTER; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEWBORN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRF1 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; FOLLOW UP; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PERFORIN; PROGNOSIS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84943653314     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2015-06-648659     Document Type: Letter

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