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    Clinical spectrum and features of activated phosphoinositide 3-kinase Ύ syndrome: A large patient cohort study.

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    BACKGROUND: Activated phosphoinositide 3-kinase ÎŽ syndrome (APDS) is a recently described combined immunodeficiency resulting from gain-of-function mutations in PIK3CD, the gene encoding the catalytic subunit of phosphoinositide 3-kinase ÎŽ (PI3KÎŽ). OBJECTIVE: We sought to review the clinical, immunologic, histopathologic, and radiologic features of APDS in a large genetically defined international cohort. METHODS: We applied a clinical questionnaire and performed review of medical notes, radiology, histopathology, and laboratory investigations of 53 patients with APDS. RESULTS: Recurrent sinopulmonary infections (98%) and nonneoplastic lymphoproliferation (75%) were common, often from childhood. Other significant complications included herpesvirus infections (49%), autoinflammatory disease (34%), and lymphoma (13%). Unexpectedly, neurodevelopmental delay occurred in 19% of the cohort, suggesting a role for PI3KÎŽ in the central nervous system; consistent with this, PI3KÎŽ is broadly expressed in the developing murine central nervous system. Thoracic imaging revealed high rates of mosaic attenuation (90%) and bronchiectasis (60%). Increased IgM levels (78%), IgG deficiency (43%), and CD4 lymphopenia (84%) were significant immunologic features. No immunologic marker reliably predicted clinical severity, which ranged from asymptomatic to death in early childhood. The majority of patients received immunoglobulin replacement and antibiotic prophylaxis, and 5 patients underwent hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Five patients died from complications of APDS. CONCLUSION: APDS is a combined immunodeficiency with multiple clinical manifestations, many with incomplete penetrance and others with variable expressivity. The severity of complications in some patients supports consideration of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for severe childhood disease. Clinical trials of selective PI3KÎŽ inhibitors offer new prospects for APDS treatment.T.C. is supported by National Children’s Research Centre, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland. A.C. has a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Training Fellowship for Clinicians (103413/Z/13/Z). K.O. is supported by funding from BBSRC, MRC, Wellcome Trust and GSK. R.D. and D.S.K are funded by National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, UK. C.S. and S.E. are supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF 01 EO 0803 grant to the Center of Chronic immunodeficiency and BMBF 01GM1111B grant to the PID-NET initiative). S.N.F is supported in part by the Southampton UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility and NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit. M.A.A.I. is funded by NHS Innovation London and King’s College Hospital Charitable Trust. A.F., S.L., A.D., F.R-L and S.K. are supported by the European Union’s 7th RTD Framework Programme (ERC advanced grant PID-IMMUNE contract 249816) and a government grant managed by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche as part of the "Investments for the Future" program (ANR-10-IAHU-01). S.L. is supported by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) (ANR-14-CE14-0028-01), the Foundation ARC pour la Recherche sur le Cancer (France), the Rare Diseases Foundation (France) and François Aupetit Association (France). S.L. is a senior scientist and S.K is a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-CNRS (France). A.D. and S.K. are supported by the “Institut National de la SantĂ© et de la Recherche MĂ©dicale". S.K. also supported by the Fondation pour la Recherche MĂ©dicale (grant number: ING20130526624), la Ligue Contre le Cancer (ComitĂ© de Paris) and the Centre de RĂ©fĂ©rence DĂ©ficits Immunitaires HĂ©rĂ©ditaires (CEREDIH). S.O.B is supported by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. B.V. is supported by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/I007806/1], Cancer Research UK [C23338/A15965) and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre. B.V. is consultant to Karus Therapeutics (Oxford, UK). S.N. is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Basic Biomedical Science (095198/Z/10/Z). S.N. is also supported by the European Research Council Starting grant 260477, the EU FP7 collaborative grant 261441 (PEVNET project) and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, UK. A.M.C. is funded by the Medical Research Council, British Lung Foundation, University of Sheffield and Cambridge NIHR-BRC. Research in A.M.C. laboratory has received non-commercial grant support from GSK, Novartis, and MedImmune.This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2016.06.02

    Goodlad, John I., Toward Schools Commonly Good,\u27 pp. 303-330 in his Romances with Schools: A Life of Education. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004.

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    Makes recommendations for retro-fitting structure of schooling; proposes a curriculum structured around the characteristics, problems, and issues of the world\u27s various domains rather than around the disciplines; all this discussed in the context of reflections by the author on his life as teacher and educator

    Goodlad, John I., Curriculum as a Field of Study, pp. 1262-1267 in Torsten Husen and Thomas N. Postlethwaite, eds., The International Encyclopedia of Education, 2d ed. New York: Pergamon, 1994.*

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    Identifies the scholars and trends that have contributed to the development of curriculum as a field of study

    Facing the future : issues in education and schooling

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    vii, 274 p.; 21 cm

    Vol27#1_School-University Partnerships: Fundamental Concepts

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    Goodlad, John I., et al, What We Don\u27t Know About Schooling, Phi Delta Kappan, 61(May, 1980), 591-606.

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    Introduces a series of articles about what we don\u27t know about teaching various school subjects; identifies leading questions that should be answered

    A place called school: prospects for the future

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