Adenosine-deaminase deficiency in two patients with severely impaired cellular immunity.
Adenosine-deaminase deficiency in two patients with severely impaired cellular immunity.
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DOI：
10.1016/s0140-6736(72)92345-8
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发表时间：
1972-11
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影响因子：
168.9
通讯作者：
E. Giblett;J. Anderson;Flossie Cohen;B. Pollara;H. Meuwissen
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作者：
E. Giblett;J. Anderson;Flossie Cohen;B. Pollara;H. Meuwissen
Two young unrelated girls with similar but not identical manifestations of immunological deficiency were found to have no measurable adenosine-deaminase (A.D.A.) enzyme activity in their red blood-cells. The red-cell A.D.A. levels in the parents of one child were about half normal and in the other set of parents about two-thirds normal, suggesting they may be heterozygous, and their affected children homozygous, for a mutant A.D.A. gene. Since the A.D.A. produced by normal lymphocytes is mainly the kind found in red cells, a causal association is postulated between the absence of A.D.A. and impaired lymphocyte function in certain patients with inherited immune disease. An alternative possibility of partial chromosomal deletion is also considered.
