Abstract
Severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID) is a fatal syndrome of infancy characterized by defects of both cellular and humoral immunities1,2. Based upon the pattern of inheritance, at least two different forms of the syndrome exist: an X-linked and an autosomal recessive form. In a proportion of families with the autosomal recessive form of SCID, the disorder is due to an inherited deficiency of the purine salvage enzyme, adenosine deaminase (ADA)3-5.
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Hirschhorn, R. (1979). Prenatal diagnosis and heterozygote detection in adenosine deaminase deficiency. In: Güttler, F., Seakins, J.W.T., Harkness, R.A. (eds) Inborn Errors of Immunity and Phagocytosis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6197-8_5
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