ArticleGenes and immunity
Variations of the perforin gene in patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy.
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- Case Report: Munc13-4 deficiency presenting with autoimmune neuropathy years before FLH: implications for early genetic screening and HSCT timing.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- Integrated Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Analyses Reveal Physiological and Hepatic Metabolic Responses of Largemouth Bass (International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Case Report: Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy rather than hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis-the initial phenotype of PRF1 gene mutation.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Article
- Genetic biomarkers for intravenous immunoglobulin response in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy.European journal of neurology · 2021Article
- Cytotoxic Immunity in Peripheral Nerve Injury and Pain.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Review
- Human perforin gene variation is geographically distributed.Molecular genetics & genomic medicine · 2018Article
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Abstract
Perforin (PRF) has a key role in the function of cytotoxic T and natural killer cells. Rare variations of PRF1 predispose to autoimmunity. Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) is an autoimmune disease of the peripheral nervous system, involving defective lymphocyte apoptosis. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of PRF1 in CIDP. The entire coding region of PRF1 was sequenced in 94 patients and 158 controls. We found three missense variations leading to amino acid substitutions and one nonsense variation resulting in a premature stop codon. All variations would decrease PRF activity. Their overall frequency was significantly higher in patients than in controls (odds ratio (OR)=4.47). The most frequent variation was p.Ala91Val (OR=3.92) previously associated with other autoimmune diseases. Clinical analysis showed that PRF1 variations were more frequent in relapsing patients and in patients displaying axonal damage. These data suggest that PRF1 variations may influence CIDP development and course.
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