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ORPHA:331206Disease
Also called T-B-NK+ SCID due to complete RAG1/2 deficiency
What it is
Severe combined immunodeficiency due to complete RAG1/2 deficiency is a rare, genetic T-B- severe combined immunodeficiency disorder due to null mutations in recombination activating gene (RAG) 1 and/or RAG2 resulting in less than 1% of wild type V(D)J recombination activity. Patients present with neonatal onset of life-threatening, severe, recurrent infections by opportunistic fungal, viral and bacterial micro-organisms, as well as skin rashes, chronic diarrhea, failure to thrive and fever. Immunologic observations include profound T- and B-cell lymphopenia, normal NK counts and low or absent serum immunoglobulins; some patients may have eosinophilia.
Key facts
- Prevalence
- 1-9 / 100 000 (Europe)
- Age of onset
- Infancy
- Inheritance
- Autosomal recessive
- Classified as
- Disease
Prevalence figures describe populations, not individuals, and are often estimates from a single study. Where the figure is an incidence or a birth prevalence, it says so.
Signs and symptoms
Very common80–99%
6Common30–79%
12- Decreased lymphocyte proliferation in response to mitogen
- Decreased proportion of CD3-positive T cells
- Failure to thrive
- Fever
- Lymphopenia
- Protracted diarrhea
- Recurrent bacterial infections
- Recurrent enteroviral infections
- Recurrent fungal infections
- Recurrent upper and lower respiratory tract infections
- Recurrent viral infections
- Reduced antigen-specific T cell proliferation
These ranges are how often a sign appears across everyone diagnosed, not a prediction for one person — most people have some of these and not others. Orphanet also records findings that are specifically absent in this disease; those are in the data but not listed here.
Genes
ICD-10 codes
ICD-10 has no distinct code for most rare diseases, so many are filed under the nearest available one. A shared code identifies the group, not this disease — the ORPHAcode above is what identifies it.
Related health topics
Reached through the ICD-10 categories this disease is filed under, so these describe the broader group rather than this disease specifically.
Cross-references
Orphadata Science: Free access data from Orphanet. © INSERM 1999. Data version 2026-06-23. Available under CC BY 4.0. This is a reference, not medical advice.
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