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ReviewJournal of clinical immunology2019

WHIM Syndrome: from Pathogenesis Towards Personalized Medicine and Cure.

Lauren E Heusinkveld, Shamik Majumdar, Ji-Liang Gao, David H McDermott, Philip M Murphy

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of clinical immunology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
59citing papers in PubMed
4.9field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

59 citing papers in PubMed, 98 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Somatic Genetic Rescue of Immunodeficiency in WHIM Syndrome.The New England journal of medicine · 2026
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  7. CXCR4 coordinates adhesion, migration, and development of human NK cells.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  10. WHIM syndrome in a child without the classic tetrad: a case confirmed by de novo CXCR4 mutation.Allergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2026
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  16. Structural insights into CXCR4 modulation and oligomerization.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lauren E HeusinkveldMolecular Signaling Section, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.
Shamik MajumdarMolecular Signaling Section, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.
Ji-Liang GaoMolecular Signaling Section, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.
David H McDermottMolecular Signaling Section, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.
Philip M MurphyMolecular Signaling Section, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA. pmm@nih.gov.ORCID 0000-0002-1080-8201
National Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Molecular Analysis Of Leukocyte Activation By ChemoattractantsZIAAI000615 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI MURPHY, PHILIP · 2009 to 2025
$44.8M
MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF NEUTROPHIL ACTIVATION BY CHEMOATTRACTANTSZ01AI000615 · NIAID · NIAID EXTRAMURAL ACTIVITIES · PI MURPHY, PHILIP · 1991 to 2008
$7.1M
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 AI000615
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

WHIM syndrome is a rare combined primary immunodeficiency disease named by acronym for the diagnostic tetrad of warts, hypogammaglobulinemia, infections, and myelokathexis. Myelokathexis is a unique form of non-cyclic severe congenital neutropenia caused by accumulation of mature and degenerating neutrophils in the bone marrow; monocytopenia and lymphopenia, especially B lymphopenia, also commonly occur. WHIM syndrome is usually caused by autosomal dominant mutations in the G protein-coupled chemokine receptor CXCR4 that impair desensitization, resulting in enhanced and prolonged G protein- and β-arrestin-dependent responses. Accordingly, CXCR4 antagonists have shown promise as mechanism-based treatments in phase 1 clinical trials. This review is based on analysis of all 105 published cases of WHIM syndrome and covers current concepts, recent advances, unresolved enigmas and controversies, and promising future research directions.

Indexed as

Adaptive ImmunityAllelesCombined Modality TherapyDiagnosis, DifferentialDisease ManagementDisease SusceptibilityGenetic Association StudiesGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseHumansImmunity, InnateMutationPhenotypePrecision MedicinePrimary Immunodeficiency DiseasesWartsChemokineCXCL12CXCR2CXCR4human papillomavirusmyelokathexisplerixafor

Identifiers

PMID31313072
PMCPMC6698215
OpenAlexW2962427214

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