Research Article

Clinical Associations of Biallelic and Monoallelic TNFRSF13B Variants in Italian Primary Antibody Deficiency Syndromes

Table 1

Frequencies, significance, and relative risk of TNFRSF13B mutations in 189 CVID (a) and in 67 IgAD (b) Italian patients compared with healthy controls.
(a) CVID

Patient subset ()Genotype (%)Relative risk (95% CI)

All patients (189)Any mutation21 (11.1%)<0.00018.5 (2.6–28.1)
Patients with biallelic mutations excluded (181)Monoallelic mutations13 (7.2%)0.00345.5 (1.56–19.0)
Patients with biallelic and C104R mutations excluded (177)Monoallelic mutations excluding C104R 9 (5.1%)0.006111.6 (1.5–91.0)
Patients with monoallelic mutations excluded (176)Biallelic mutations8 (4.5%)0.001221.9 (1.3–376.9)
Patients without mutations other than heterozygous C104R (172)Heterozygous C104R4 (2.3%)0.40842.7 (0.5–14.4)

(b) IgAD

Patient subset ()Genotype (%)Relative risk (95% CI)

All IgAD patients (67) Any mutation 9 (13.4%) 0.000110.3 (2.9–37.0)
Patients without mutations other than heterozygous C104R (64) Monoallelic mutations excluding C104R 6 (9.4%) 0.0005 21.4 (2.6–174.3)
Patients without mutations other than heterozygous C104R (61) Heterozygous C104R 3 (4.9%) 0.0064 5.6 (1.0–33.0)

Two-tailed values calculated by Fisher’s exact test.