IRF4 haploinsufficiency in a family with Whipple’s disease

IRF4 haploinsufficiency in a family with Whipple’s disease

Most humans are exposed to Tropheryma whipplei (Tw). Whipple’s disease (WD) strikes only a small minority of individuals infected with Tw (<0.01%), whereas asymptomatic chronic carriage is more common (<25%). We studied a multiplex kindred, containing four WD patients and five healthy...

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Main Authors: Antoine Guérin, Gaspard Kerner, Nico Marr, Janet G Markle, Florence Fenollar, Natalie Wong, Sabri Boughorbel, Danielle T Avery, Cindy S Ma, Salim Bougarn, Matthieu Bouaziz, Vivien Béziat, Erika Della Mina, Carmen Oleaga-Quintas, Tomi Lazarov, Lisa Worley, Tina Nguyen, Etienne Patin, Caroline Deswarte, Rubén Martinez-Barricarte, Soraya Boucherit, Xavier Ayral, Sophie Edouard, Stéphanie Boisson-Dupuis, Vimel Rattina, Benedetta Bigio, Guillaume Vogt, Frédéric Geissmann, Lluis Quintana-Murci, Damien Chaussabel, Stuart G Tangye, Didier Raoult, Laurent Abel, Jacinta Bustamante, Jean-Laurent Casanova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2018-03-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
Whipple's disease
primary immunodeficiency
IRF4
haploinsufficiency
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/32340

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