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Eighteen individuals with DADA2 (9%) possessed detectable ADA2 activity, including several cases with levels seen in carriers. Residual ADA2 activity was associated with the vasculitis/inflammatory phenotype but not with disease severity. Genotype analysis revealed that 14 of 18 cases with residual plasma activity possessed at least one hypomorphic missense variant with greater than 20% residual ADA2 function when overexpressed in 293T cells, often occurring in trans with a more deleterious variant. In vitro analysis revealed that missense ADA2 variants exert variable dominant-negative effects by forming large intracellular protein aggregates via disulfide bond formation at a cysteine residue (Cys408). CONCLUSION: We confirmed the utility of plasma ADA2 activity as a diagnostic assay and showed that the inflammatory phenotype of DADA2 occurred in cases with residual activity. 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