In 2006, a linear immunological continuum of autoinflammatory and autoimmune disorders ranging from monogenic diseases of innate immunity at one end to monogenic diseases of adaptive immunity at the other end was proposed to classify these conditions. Deep immunophenotyping has now revealed a cell-based nosology of these disorders.
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McDermott, M.F. A nosology of immune diseases from deep immunophenotyping. Nat Rev Rheumatol 20, 256–257 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41584-024-01098-5
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