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Control of infectious diseases by immunotherapy and chemotherapy has made possible the survival of individuals genetically predisposed to a series of diseases including immunodeficiencies that formerly resulted in death before the individual reached reproductive age. As a result, today, rare genes are expressed, which formerly were the exception. Thus, immunodeficiencies may cease to be rare diseases in the not too distant future.
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da Silva, W.D., Götze, D. (1981). Immunodeficiencies. In: Fundamentals of Immunology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0116-5_12
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