Mondo Description A severe combined immunodeficiency characterized by being T cell-negative, B cell-positive and natural killer cell-positive and that has material basis in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the IL7R gene on chromosome 5p13 or the CD45 gene on chromosome 1q31.

Uniprot Description A form of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), a genetically and clinically heterogeneous group of rare congenital disorders characterized by impairment of both humoral and cell-mediated immunity, leukopenia, and low or absent antibody levels. Patients present in infancy recurrent, persistent infections by opportunistic organisms. The common characteristic of all types of SCID is absence of T-cell-mediated cellular immunity due to a defect in T-cell development.