Abstract:Autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome (ALPS) is a non-malignant disease characterized by early-onset chronic lymphadenopathy, splenomegaly, multilineage cytopenias, polyclonal hypergammaglobulinemia, expansion of circulating TCRαβ+B220+CD4-CD8- T (αβ+-DNT) lymphocytes, and an increased risk of B-cell lymphoma. Most ALPS patients have germline or somatic TNFRSF6 (FAS) mutations, and a small minority of patients have germline mutations in FAS ligand and caspase 10. We recently reported that an ALPS-like phenot… Show more
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