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ArticleAmerican journal of human genetics2012

Deleterious mutations in LRBA are associated with a syndrome of immune deficiency and autoimmunity.

Gabriela Lopez-Herrera, Giacomo Tampella, Qiang Pan-Hammarström, Peer Herholz, Claudia M Trujillo-Vargas, Kanchan Phadwal, Anna Katharina Simon, Michel Moutschen, Amos Etzioni, Adi Mory and 23 more

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Article in American journal of human genetics, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 238 papers.

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238citing papers in PubMed
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238 citing papers in PubMed, 518 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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33 authors at 15 institutions in 10 countries.

Gabriela Lopez-HerreraDepartment of Immunology, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, Royal Free Hospital, UK.
Giacomo Tampella
Qiang Pan-Hammarström
Peer Herholz
Claudia M Trujillo-Vargas
Kanchan Phadwal
Anna Katharina Simon
Michel Moutschen
Amos Etzioni
Adi Mory
Izhak Srugo
Doron Melamed
Kjell Hultenby
Chonghai Liu
Manuela Baronio
Massimiliano Vitali
Pierre Philippet
Vinciane Dideberg
Asghar Aghamohammadi
Nima Rezaei
Victoria Enright
Likun Du
Ulrich Salzer
Hermann Eibel
Dietmar Pfeifer
Hendrik Veelken
Hans Stauss
Vassilios Lougaris
Alessandro Plebani
E Michael Gertz
Alejandro A Schäffer
Lennart Hammarström
Bodo Grimbacher
Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale degli Spedali Civili di Brescia · ITUniversity Medical Center Freiburg · DEKarolinska University Hospital · SEUniversity College London · GBKarolinska Institutet · SENational Institutes of Health · USTehran University of Medical Sciences · IRUniversity of Liège · BECentre Hospitalier Chrétien · BELeiden University Medical Center · NLMRC Human Immunology Unit · GBThe Royal Free Hospital · GBUniversidad de Antioquia · COUniversity of Brescia · ITUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

Case Studies In GeneticsZIALM000097 · NLM · NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE · PI SCHAFFER, ALEJANDRO A · 2009 to 2019
$4.6M
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/G021422/1Intramural NIH HHSMedical Research Council G0900950
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most autosomal genetic causes of childhood-onset hypogammaglobulinemia are currently not well understood. Most affected individuals are simplex cases, but both autosomal-dominant and autosomal-recessive inheritance have been described. We performed genetic linkage analysis in consanguineous families affected by hypogammaglobulinemia. Four consanguineous families with childhood-onset humoral immune deficiency and features of autoimmunity shared genotype evidence for a linkage interval on chromosome 4q. Sequencing of positional candidate genes revealed that in each family, affected individuals had a distinct homozygous mutation in LRBA (lipopolysaccharide responsive beige-like anchor protein). All LRBA mutations segregated with the disease because homozygous individuals showed hypogammaglobulinemia and autoimmunity, whereas heterozygous individuals were healthy. These mutations were absent in healthy controls. Individuals with homozygous LRBA mutations had no LRBA, had disturbed B cell development, defective in vitro B cell activation, plasmablast formation, and immunoglobulin secretion, and had low proliferative responses. We conclude that mutations in LRBA cause an immune deficiency characterized by defects in B cell activation and autophagy and by susceptibility to apoptosis, all of which are associated with a clinical phenotype of hypogammaglobulinemia and autoimmunity.

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Adaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingAgammaglobulinemiaApoptosisAutoimmunityAutophagyB-LymphocytesCell ProliferationChildChild, PreschoolChromosome MappingFemaleGenetic LinkageGenotypeHomozygoteHumansImmunologic Deficiency SyndromesAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingLRBA protein, human

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PMID22608502
PMCPMC3370280
OpenAlexW2154951784

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