Medical Dictionary: Congenital agammaglobulinemia

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Congenital agammaglobulinemia: Another name for X-Linked Agammaglobulinemia.
Congenital agammaglobulinemia (condition): Immune deficiency from lack of antibodies.

Congenital agammaglobulinemia: XLA is sometimes called Bruton type, X-linked infantile, or congenital agammaglobulinemia. One out of 100,000 people have XLA. Defects on the X chromosome cause XLA. Only boys get XLA. That is because girls have two sets of X chromosomes, and the normal copy compensates for the faulty gene. ¹

More information on medical condition: X-Linked Agammaglobulinemia:

Footnotes:
1. excerpt from Primary Immune Deficiency, NIAID Fact Sheet: NIAID

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