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n. - Immunodeficiency in male children resulting from mutation of a gene that codes for a protein on the surface of certain cells that allows them to develop a growth factor receptor.

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  • Treatment of X-linked Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (X-SCID) by the in utero transplantation of paternal bone marrow.
  • The London hospital said 18-month-old Rhys Evans had been cured of the fatal genetic condition X-linked Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease X-SCID, commonly known...
  • Both this child and another who had developed a similar condition in August 2002 had been successfully treated by gene therapy for X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency...
  • Peripheral blood profiles of Il2rg-deficient (X-SCID) rats.
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