Atypical Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome in a girl
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Atypical Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome in a girl.
Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) is a fully penetrant X-linked recessive disorder characterized by thrombocytopenia with small platelets, eczema, and defects of both T-cell and B-cell immunity. Obligate carriers of this disorder show no signs of the gene defect because in the cell lineages primarily affected by the disorder they demonstrate preferential use of the normal, nonmutant X as the activ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Blood
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0006-4971,1528-0020
DOI: 10.1182/blood.v80.5.1264.1264