CD79A and inflammatory bowel disease: Selective IgA deficiency is the most common form of primary immunodeficiency in humans (Cunningham-Rundles, 2001), and is associated with chronic gastrointestinal disease in both humans (Petty et al., 1979) and dogs (Maeda et al., 2013), where individuals with inflammatory bowel disease had significantly decreased concentrations of fecal IgA compared to healthy controls (Maeda et al., 2013).