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ArticleMolecular genetics & genomic medicine2019

A rare case of acquired immunodeficiency associated with myelodysplastic syndrome.

Juanjuan Li, Junhui Li, Jianguo Li, Hailan Yao, Fang Liu, James F Gusella, Xiaodong Shi, Xiaoli Chen

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Article in Molecular genetics & genomic medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Juanjuan LiDepartment of Hematology, Affiliated Children's Hospital of Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7098-3095
Junhui LiDepartment of Hematology, Affiliated Children's Hospital of Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China.
Jianguo LiDepartment of Rheumatology, Affiliated Children's Hospital of Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China.
Hailan YaoDepartment of Molecular Immunology, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China.
Fang LiuDepartment of Medical Genetics, Beijing Municipal Key Laboratory of Child Development and Nutriomics, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China.
James F GusellaMolecular Neurogenetics Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Xiaodong ShiDepartment of Hematology, Affiliated Children's Hospital of Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China.
Xiaoli ChenDepartment of Medical Genetics, Beijing Municipal Key Laboratory of Child Development and Nutriomics, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0536-1553
Children's Hospital of Capital Institute of Pediatrics · CNCapital Institute of Pediatrics · CNMassachusetts General Hospital · US

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RAPID GENE DISCOVERYP01GM061354 · NIGMS · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI MORTON, CYNTHIA CASSON · 2001 to 2019
$24.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS P01 GM061354
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPediatric myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) display clonal genomic instability that can lead to acquisition of other hematological disorders, usually by loss of heterozygosity. Immunodeficiency caused by uniparental disomy (UPD) has not previously been reported.

methodsWe investigated a 13-year-old boy who suffered from recurrent infections and pancytopenia for 1 year. Both the comet assay and chromosome breakage analysis were normal, but the bone marrow showed evidence of dysplasia characteristic of MDS. With his normal sister as donor, he underwent failed hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) with reduced intensity conditioning (RIC) followed by successful HSCT with myeloablative conditioning (MAC). We used single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array, targeted gene panel, and whole exome sequencing to investigate the etiology of his disease.

resultsThe molecular analyses revealed multiple regions of homozygosity, one region encompassing a homozygous missense variant of recombination activating gene 1 (RAG1) which was previously associated with severe immunodeficiency in infancy. This RAG1 mutation was heterozygous in the proband's fingernail DNA, but was changed to homozygous in the proband's marrow by somatic acquisition of UPD event. No other pathogenic driver mutation for MDS-related genes was identified.

conclusionThe hematological phenotype, somatic genomic instability, and response to HSCT MAC but not HSCT RIC deduced to a diagnosis of MDS type refractory cytopenia of children in this patient. His immunodeficiency was secondary to MDS due to somatic acquisition of homozygosity for known pathogenic RAG1 mutation.

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MutationAcquired Immunodeficiency SyndromeAdolescentHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationHomeodomain ProteinsHumansMaleMyelodysplastic SyndromesPrognosisUniparental DisomyHomeodomain ProteinsRAG-1 proteinacquired UPDimmunodeficiencymyelodysplastic syndromeRAG1

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