Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial diseases due to complete IL12RB1 deficiency

IMD30 results from autosomal recessive IL12RB1 deficiency and is the most common form of susceptibility to mycobacterial disease. Activated T and natural killer lymphocytes from IMD30 patients do not express IL12RB1 on their surface or, more rarely, express nonfunctional IL12RB1 on their surface. IMD30 patients therefore lack responses to IL12 (see 161560) and IL23 (see 605580). The clinical presentation of IL12RB1-deficient patients is similar to that of IL12B-deficient patients (see IMD29, 614890). Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) disease and salmonellosis are the most frequent infections. Salmonellosis is present in about half of IL12RB1-deficient patients, and significant numbers of patients present with isolated salmonellosis. Severe tuberculosis has been reported in several unrelated patients, and other infections have been reported in single patients. IMD30 has low penetrance, and patients have relatively mild disease and good prognosis (review by Al-Muhsen and Casanova, 2008). [from OMIM]