Chronic Granulomatous Disease (CGD) is a rare inherited disorder in which phagocytes lack NADPH oxidase activity. The most common form is the X-linked CGD (X-CGD), caused by mutations in the CYBB gene. Clinical, functional and genetic characterizations of 16 CGD cases of male patients and their relatives were done. We classified them as suffering from different
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