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The authors would like to thank the patients and their families for contributing to the study. We thank the Necker Imagine Centre de Resources Biologiques for generating EBV-transformed lymphoblastoid cell lines; the bioinformatic platform from the Imagine Institute for their help in analyzing the whole exome sequencing data; the clinical research team at the Imagine Institute for their support; and the members of the human lymphohematopoiesis laboratory for helpful discussions.
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The work was funded by the French state (via the Agence Nationale de la Recherche’s “Investissments d’avenir” program (ANR-10-IAHU-01), and grants ANR-19-CE17-0012-01 and ANR-19-CE17-0012-02 (ANR-AID)). SK is a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique staff researcher.
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NMC, AV, and RT performed and analyzed experiments. AF provided patient care, clinical information, and samples from the patients and controls. SK supervised the research. SK and NMC wrote the manuscript, and all the co-authors revised, edited, and approved the manuscript.
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Moreno-Corona, N., Valagussa, A., Thouenon, R. et al. A Case Report of Folliculin-Interacting Protein 1 Deficiency. J Clin Immunol 43, 1751–1753 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10875-023-01559-8
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