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The Association of Fetal Thymus Size with Subsequent T Cell Counts in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the patients.

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KES is supported through the Wallace Chair of Pediatrics.

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  1. Division of Hematology and Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

    Ying Dou

  2. Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Erica Schindewolf, Julie S. Moldenhauer, Beverly Coleman & Edward R. Oliver

  3. 22q and You Center and Division of Human Genetics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    T. Blaine Crowley & Donna McDonald McGinn

  4. Division of Allergy Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Kathleen E. Sullivan

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KES and DMM formulated the study. YD performed statistical analyses. ES assembled and analyzed thymic size assessments. TBC performed data extraction of T cell counts phenotypic variables. BC, JM, and EO performed thymic size analysis.

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Dou, Y., Schindewolf, E., Crowley, T.B. et al. The Association of Fetal Thymus Size with Subsequent T Cell Counts in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome. J Clin Immunol 40, 783–785 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10875-020-00807-5

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