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ArticleBMC immunology2008

Screening of functional and positional candidate genes in families with common variable immunodeficiency.

Ulrich Salzer, Carla Neumann, Jens Thiel, Cristina Woellner, Qiang Pan-Hammarström, Vassilis Lougaris, Tina Hagena, Johannes Jung, Jennifer Birmelin, Likun Du and 7 more

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Article in BMC immunology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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17 authors at 7 institutions in 5 countries.

Ulrich SalzerDivision of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Medical School, University Hospital Freiburg, Hugstetterstr, 55, 79106 Freiburg, Germany. salzer@medizin.ukl.uni-freiburg.de
Carla Neumann
Jens Thiel
Cristina Woellner
Qiang Pan-Hammarström
Vassilis Lougaris
Tina Hagena
Johannes Jung
Jennifer Birmelin
Likun Du
Ayse Metin
David A Webster
Alessandro Plebani
Viviana Moschese
Lennart Hammarström
Alejandro A Schäffer
Bodo Grimbacher
University Medical Center Freiburg · DEKarolinska University Hospital · SEUniversity College London · GBUniversity of Brescia · ITNational Center for Biotechnology Information · USPoliclinico Tor Vergata · ITThe Royal Free Hospital · GB

Funding

Case Studies In GeneticsZIALM000097 · NLM · NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE · PI SCHAFFER, ALEJANDRO A · 2009 to 2019
$4.6M
Case Studies In GeneticsZ01LM000097 · NLM · NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE · PI SCHAFFER, ALEJANDRO A · 2002 to 2008
$452k
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCommon variable immunodeficiency (CVID) comprises a heterogeneous group of primary antibody deficiencies with complex clinical and immunological phenotypes. The recent discovery that some CVID patients show monogenic defects in the genes encoding ICOS, TACI or CD19 prompted us to investigate several functional candidate genes in individuals with CVID.

resultsThe exonic, protein coding regions of the genes encoding: APRIL, BCMA, IL10, IL10Ralpha, IL10Rbeta, IL21, IL21R, and CCL18, were analyzed primarily in familial CVID cases, who showed evidence of genetic linkage to the respective candidate gene loci and CVID families with a recessive pattern of inheritance. Two novel SNPs were identified in exon 5 and exon 8 of the IL21R gene, which segregated with the disease phenotype in one CVID family. Eleven additional SNPs in the genes encoding BCMA, APRIL, IL10, IL10Ralpha, IL21 and IL21R were observed at similar frequencies as in healthy donors.

conclusionWe were unable to identify obvious disease causing mutations in the protein coding regions of the analyzed genes in the studied cohort.

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Genetic TestingB-Cell Maturation AntigenChemokines, CCCommon Variable ImmunodeficiencyFamilyFemaleHumansInterleukin-10Interleukin-10 Receptor alpha SubunitInterleukin-21InterleukinsMalePedigreePolymorphism, Single NucleotideReceptors, Interleukin-21Tumor Necrosis Factor Ligand Superfamily Member 13B-Cell Maturation AntigenCCL18 protein, humanChemokines, CCInterleukin-10Interleukin-10 Receptor alpha SubunitInterleukin-21InterleukinsReceptors, Interleukin-21TNFRSF17 protein, humanTNFSF13 protein, humanTumor Necrosis Factor Ligand Superfamily Member 13

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PMID18254984
PMCPMC2268914
OpenAlexW2083839173

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