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A New Patient with NOCARH Syndrome Due to CDC42 Defect

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Acknowledgments

We thank all the patients, their families, and the healthy controls for the participation. We thank Huan Zhang (Department of Pathology, Shenzhen Children’s hospital, China) for providing pictures of BM smear from the patient and a control diagnosed with ITP. We especially thank Lixin Zheng (Molecular Development of the Immune System Section, Laboratory of Immune System Biology, and Clinical Genomics Program, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) and Sicai Zhang for the correction of grammatical errors.

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This work was supported by the Sanming Project of Medicine in Shenzhen (no. SZSM201812002) and Science and Technology Planning Project of Shenzhen Municipality (JCY20170303155201082).

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    Tingyan He, Yanyan Huang, Jiayun Ling & Jun Yang

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Tingyan He and Yanyan Huang contributed equally to this work. Tingyan He and Yanyan Huang performed the main experiments, analyzed the data, and drafted the manuscript. Jiayun Ling collected clinical data from the patient. Jun Yang reviewed the manuscript. All authors reviewed and approved the final manuscript.

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He, T., Huang, Y., Ling, J. et al. A New Patient with NOCARH Syndrome Due to CDC42 Defect. J Clin Immunol 40, 571–575 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10875-020-00786-7

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