[Peripheral tolerance is also markedly decreased in SCID because of several factors including the expansion of T-cell clones as a consequence of the lymphopenia observed in these condition as well as a diminished number of T regulatory (FOXP3+)cells, allowing autoreactive T cells to proliferate and infiltrate various organs in the body of SCID.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE