All Patients With Common Variable Immunodeficiency Disorders (CVID) Should Be Routinely Offered Diagnostic Genetic Testing

Rohan Ameratunga; Klaus Lehnert; See-Tarn Woon

doi:10.3389/fimmu.2019.02678

All Patients With Common Variable Immunodeficiency Disorders (CVID) Should Be Routinely Offered Diagnostic Genetic Testing

Front Immunol. 2019 Nov 22:10:2678. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.02678. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Rohan Ameratunga^{1

2

3}, Klaus Lehnert⁴, See-Tarn Woon¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Virology and Immunology, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.
² Department of Clinical Immunology, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.
³ Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
⁴ School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

No abstract available

Keywords: CVID - common variable immunodeficiency disorders; genetic sequence analysis; hypogammaglobinaemia; transient hypogammaglobulinemia of adulthood (THA); transient hypogammaglobulinemia of infancy.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Common Variable Immunodeficiency / diagnosis*
Common Variable Immunodeficiency / genetics*
Diagnostic Tests, Routine
Genetic Predisposition to Disease / genetics
Genetic Testing*
Humans