Infect Chemother.
2007 Dec;39(6):332-337.
A Case of X-linked Chronic Granulomatous Disease Diagnosed in Identical Twin
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- 1Department of Pediatrics, Medicine Research Center, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. jgkim@snu.ac.kr
- 2Institute of Allergy & Clinical Immunology, Medicine Research Center, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
- 3Department of Forensic Medicine, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
Abstract
- Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is a rare, inherited congenital immunodeficiency disease, characterized by severe and recurrent infections at epithelial surfaces or in more vital organs such as the liver, lung or brain. There are two types of inheritance: X-linked recessive and autosomal recessive. The disease is caused by mutations of proteins, which compose the NADPH oxidase of phagocytes. The most common X-linked CGD type exhibits defect in CYBB encoding gp91phox. It rarely arise from intronic mutations within CYBB. This report describes identical twin patients with X-linked form CGD that showed mutations at intron 1.
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