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ReviewClinical and vaccine immunology : CVI2016

Flow Cytometry, a Versatile Tool for Diagnosis and Monitoring of Primary Immunodeficiencies.

Roshini S Abraham, Geraldine Aubert

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Review in Clinical and vaccine immunology : CVI, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 82 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
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  4. Inborn errors of immunity (primary immunodeficiencies).Allergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2025
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  7. flowSim: Near duplicate detection for flow cytometry data.Cytometry. Part A : the journal of the International Society for Analytical Cytology · 2023
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  9. Flow cytometry optimizing the diagnostic approach in inborn errors of immunity: experience from Egypt.Allergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2022
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  11. Primary Immunodeficiencies: Diseases of Children and Adults - A Review.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2021
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  16. Machine Learning of Discriminative Gate Locations for Clinical Diagnosis.Cytometry. Part A : the journal of the International Society for Analytical Cytology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Roshini S AbrahamCellular and Molecular Immunology Laboratory, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA abraham.roshini@mayo.edu.
Geraldine AubertRepeat Diagnostics Inc., North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and Terry Fox Laboratory, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
BC Cancer Agency · CAMayo Clinic · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genetic defects of the immune system are referred to as primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs). These immunodeficiencies are clinically and immunologically heterogeneous and, therefore, pose a challenge not only for the clinician but also for the diagnostic immunologist. There are several methodological tools available for evaluation and monitoring of patients with PIDs, and of these tools, flow cytometry has gained prominence, both for phenotyping and functional assays. Flow cytometry allows real-time analysis of cellular composition, cell signaling, and other relevant immunological pathways, providing an accessible tool for rapid diagnostic and prognostic assessment. This minireview provides an overview of the use of flow cytometry in disease-specific diagnosis of PIDs, in addition to other broader applications, which include immune phenotyping and cellular functional measurements.

Indexed as

Flow CytometryHumansImmunologic Deficiency Syndromes

Identifiers

PMID26912782
PMCPMC4820507
OpenAlexW2281891893

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