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ArticleScientific reports2018

Somatic alterations compromised molecular diagnosis of DOCK8 hyper-IgE syndrome caused by a novel intronic splice site mutation.

Beate Hagl, Benedikt D Spielberger, Silvia Thoene, Sophie Bonnal, Christian Mertes, Christof Winter, Isaac J Nijman, Shira Verduin, Andreas C Eberherr, Anne Puel and 7 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. A deep intronic splice mutation ofProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors at 8 institutions in 6 countries.

Beate HaglChair and Institute of Environmental Medicine, UNIKA-T, Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Munich/Augsburg, Munich, Germany.
Benedikt D SpielbergerChair and Institute of Environmental Medicine, UNIKA-T, Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Munich/Augsburg, Munich, Germany.
Silvia ThoeneInstitute of Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
Sophie BonnalCentre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Dr. Aiguader 88, Barcelona, 08002, Spain.
Christian MertesDepartment of Informatics, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany.
Christof WinterInstitute of Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0253-9056
Isaac J NijmanDepartment of Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Shira VerduinDepartment of Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Andreas C EberherrChair and Institute of Environmental Medicine, UNIKA-T, Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Munich/Augsburg, Munich, Germany.
Anne PuelLaboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Branch, Necker Medical School, Paris, France.
Detlev SchindlerDepartment of Human Genetics, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
Jürgen RulandInstitute of Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8381-3597
Thomas MeitingerInstitute of Human Genetics, Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Neuherberg, Germany.
Julien GagneurDepartment of Informatics, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany.
Jordan S OrangeCenter for Human Immunobiology of Texas Children's Hospital/Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Marielle E van GijnDepartment of Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Ellen D RennerChair and Institute of Environmental Medicine, UNIKA-T, Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Munich/Augsburg, Munich, Germany. ellen.renner@tum.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9816-8538
Helmholtz Zentrum München · DEGerman Cancer Research Center · DEUniversity Medical Center Utrecht · NLTechnical University of Munich · DEBaylor College of Medicine · USUniversitat Pompeu Fabra · ESUniversité Paris Cité · FRUniversity of Würzburg · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In hyper-IgE syndromes (HIES), a group of primary immunodeficiencies clinically overlapping with atopic dermatitis, early diagnosis is crucial to initiate appropriate therapy and prevent irreversible complications. Identification of underlying gene defects such as in DOCK8 and STAT3 and corresponding molecular testing has improved diagnosis. Yet, in a child and her newborn sibling with HIES phenotype molecular diagnosis was misleading. Extensive analyses driven by the clinical phenotype identified an intronic homozygous DOCK8 variant c.4626 + 76 A > G creating a novel splice site as disease-causing. While the affected newborn carrying the homozygous variant had no expression of DOCK8 protein, in the index patient molecular diagnosis was compromised due to expression of altered and wildtype DOCK8 transcripts and DOCK8 protein as well as defective STAT3 signaling. Sanger sequencing of lymphocyte subsets revealed that somatic alterations and reversions revoked the predominance of the novel over the canonical splice site in the index patient explaining DOCK8 protein expression, whereas defective STAT3 responses in the index patient were explained by a T cell phenotype skewed towards central and effector memory T cells. Hence, somatic alterations and skewed immune cell phenotypes due to selective pressure may compromise molecular diagnosis and need to be considered with unexpected clinical and molecular findings.

Indexed as

MutationBase SequenceChild, PreschoolComputational BiologyFemaleGene Expression RegulationGuanine Nucleotide Exchange FactorsHumansInfantIntronsJob SyndromeMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesPregnancyRNA Splice SitesSignal TransductionSTAT3 Transcription FactorDOCK8 protein, humanGuanine Nucleotide Exchange FactorsRNA Splice SitesSTAT3 Transcription Factor

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PMID30425284
PMCPMC6233225
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