Jean‐Laurent Casanova

The human gene damage index as a gene-level approach to prioritizing exome variants

Significance The protein-coding exome of a patient with a monogenic disease contains about 20,000 variations, of which only one or two are disease causing. When attempting to se...

Inborn errors of IL-12/23- and IFN-γ-mediated immunity: molecular, cellular, and clinical features

TLR3 Deficiency in Patients with Herpes Simplex Encephalitis

Some Toll and Toll-like receptors (TLRs) provide immunity to experimental infections in animal models, but their contribution to host defense in natural ecosystems is unknown. W...

Pyogenic Bacterial Infections in Humans with IRAK-4 Deficiency

Members of the Toll-like receptor (TLR) and interleukin-1 receptor (IL-1R) superfamily share an intracytoplasmic Toll–IL-1 receptor (TIR) domain, which mediates recruitment of t...

X-linked neonatal diabetes mellitus, enteropathy and endocrinopathy syndrome is the human equivalent of mouse scurfy

To determine whether human X-linked neonatal diabetes mellitus, enteropathy and endocrinopathy syndrome (IPEX; MIM 304930) is the genetic equivalent of the scurfy (sf) mouse, we...