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      A variant of SCID with specific immune responses and predominance of gamma delta T cells.

      The Journal of clinical investigation
      Amino Acid Sequence, Base Sequence, Cells, Cultured, Clone Cells, Cytomegalovirus, immunology, Cytomegalovirus Infections, Female, Fibroblasts, virology, Homeodomain Proteins, genetics, Humans, Immunophenotyping, Infant, Molecular Sequence Data, Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta, analysis, biosynthesis, Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, T-Lymphocytes, metabolism

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          We describe here a patient with a clinical and molecular diagnosis of recombinase activating gene 1-deficient (RAG1-deficient) SCID, who produced specific antibodies despite minimal B cell numbers. Memory B cells were detected and antibodies were produced not only against some vaccines and infections, but also against autoantigens. The patient had severely reduced levels of oligoclonal T cells expressing the alphabeta TCR but surprisingly normal numbers of T cells expressing the gammadelta TCR. Analysis at a clonal level and TCR complementarity-determining region-3 spectratyping for gammadelta T cells revealed a diversified oligoclonal repertoire with predominance of cells expressing a gamma4-delta3 TCR. Several gammadelta T cell clones displayed reactivity against CMV-infected cells. These observations are compatible with 2 non-mutually exclusive explanations for the gammadelta T cell predominance: a developmental advantage and infection-triggered, antigen-driven peripheral expansion. The patient carried the homozygous hypomorphic R561H RAG1 mutation leading to reduced V(D)J recombination but lacked all clinical features characteristic of Omenn syndrome. This report describes a new phenotype of RAG deficiency and shows that the ability to form specific antibodies does not exclude the diagnosis of SCID.

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