Severe Combined Immunodeficiency

Of monogenic disorder and immunodeficiency.   May also be referred to as SCID and severe combined immunodeficiency disease.

A congenital disease affecting T cells that can result from a mutation in any one of several different genes; children with it are susceptible to infectious disease; if untreated it is lethal within the first year or two of life.

This concept's ID is @1~71167

Contains

  • X-linked SCID 0 facts

    SCID in male children resulting from mutation of a gene that codes for a protein on...

  • ADA-SCID 0 facts

    SCID resulting from mutation of a gene that codes for adenosine deaminase.