Immunodeficiency and disseminated mycobacterial infection associated with homozygous nonsense mutation of IKKβ.
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SUBMITTER: Burns SO
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4085475 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
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Immunodeficiency and disseminated mycobacterial infection associated with homozygous nonsense mutation of IKKβ.
Burns Siobhan O SO Plagnol Vincent V Gutierrez Beatriz Morillo BM Al Zahrani Daifulah D Curtis James J Gaspar Miguel M Hassan Amel A Jones Alison M AM Malone Marian M Rampling Dyanne D McLatchie Alex A Doffinger Rainer R Gilmour Kimberly C KC Henriquez Frances F Thrasher Adrian J AJ Gaspar H Bobby HB Nejentsev Sergey S
The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 20140327 1
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