Immune system disorders in children can involve an underactive, overactive, or misdirected immune response. Main groups include immunodeficiencies, autoimmune diseases, atopic diseases, and ...

The Ghana chapter of the Patient Organisation for Primary Immunodeficiencies (GhanaPOPI) has been launched to create ...

An international consortium co-led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center immunogeneticist Rubén Martínez-Barricarte, PhD, has discovered a new genetic disorder that causes immunodeficiency and ...

Representing a group of over 450 rare inherited conditions, Primary Immunodeficiency Disorders (PIDs) are typically characterised by increased susceptibility to infections and dysregulation of the ...

Early results from a study of newborn screening methods show that DNA analysis picks up many more preventable or treatable serious health conditions than standard newborn screening and is favored by ...

I think that it's important to know that primary immunodeficiency disease is an underdiagnosed disease. There's about two hundred and fifty thousand people in the US that are estimated to have primary ...

The cellular glitches underlying a rare genetic disorder called activated PI3K Delta syndrome 2 (APDS2) have been identified. The disorder is caused by genetic variations that disrupt immune cell ...

Scientists have pinpointed genetic changes that can leave children born with little to no immune defence against infection. In a new study of 11 affected individuals, researchers from Newcastle ...

(SALT LAKE CITY)—A 30-year-old woman with a history of upper respiratory infections had no idea she carried an immunodeficiency disorder – until her 6-year-old son was diagnosed with the same illness.

Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is a type of genetic condition called primary immunodeficiency disease (PIDD) that causes low levels of antibodies (protective proteins) in your body. This ...

Immunogeneticists have discovered a new genetic disorder that causes immunodeficiency and profound susceptibility to opportunistic infections including a life-threatening fungal pneumonia. An ...