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NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
Volume 355, Issue 17, Pages 1790-1793Publisher
MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa062520
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The Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome is an X-linked hereditary disorder associated with combined immunodeficiency, thrombocytopenia, small platelets, eczema, and increased susceptibility to autoimmune disorders and cancers. It is caused by mutations in the gene (WAS) for the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (WASP). We investigated family members of the patients originally described by Wiskott in 1937 and identified a new frame shift mutation in exon 1 of WAS. This mutation is likely to be the hypothesized genotype that caused the severe form of the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome in the three brothers described by Wiskott.
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