Disorders of innate immunity [DS:H02525] Primary immunodeficiency disease [DS:H01725]
Description
WHIM (an acronym for warts, hypogammaglobulinemia, infections and myelokathexis, a form of neutropenia) syndrome is a congenital immunodeficiency disease characterized by neutropenia, hypogammaglobulinemia and susceptibility to human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. Affected individuals have mutations that variably truncate the cytoplasmic tail domain of CXC chemokine receptor 4 (CXCR4). Leukocytes expressing truncated CXCR4 display enhanced responses to the receptor ligand CXCL12, including chemotaxis, which likely impair their trafficking and contribute to the immunohematologic clinical manifestations of the syndrome.
Category
Primary immunodeficiency
Brite
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
04 Diseases of the immune system
Primary immunodeficiencies
4A00 Primary immunodeficiencies due to disorders of innate immunity
H00097 WHIM syndrome
Pathway-based classification of diseases [BR:br08402]
Immune system
nt06533 Chemokine signaling
H00097 WHIM syndrome
