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ArticleBlood2023

The spectrum of GATA2 deficiency syndrome.

Katherine R Calvo, Dennis D Hickstein

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Article in Blood, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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61 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 80 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Katherine R CalvoDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD.
Dennis D HicksteinImmune Deficiency - Cellular Therapy Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.ORCID 0000-0002-1697-7209
National Institutes of Health · USNational Institutes of Health Clinical Center · US

Funding

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant for Immunodeficiency with MDSZIABC010870 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI HICKSTEIN, DENNIS · 2009 to 2025
$18.8M
The Role of microRNA in Hematologic MalignanciesZIACL090025 · CLC · CLINICAL CENTER · PI CALVO, KATHERINE · 2010 to 2025
$0k
CCR NIH HHS HHSN261200800001CIntramural NIH HHS ZIA BC010870NCI NIH HHS HHSN261200800001E
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inherited or de novo germ line heterozygous mutations in the gene encoding the transcription factor GATA2 lead to its deficiency. This results in a constellation of clinical features including nontuberculous mycobacterial, bacterial, fungal, and human papillomavirus infections, lymphedema, pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, and myelodysplasia. The onset, or even the presence, of disease is highly variable, even in kindreds with the identical mutation in GATA2. The clinical manifestations result from the loss of a multilineage progenitor that gives rise to B lymphocytes, monocytes, natural killer cells, and dendritic cells, leading to cytopenias of these lineages and subsequent infections. The bone marrow failure is typically characterized by hypocellularity. Dysplasia may either be absent or subtle but typically evolves into multilineage dysplasia with prominent dysmegakaryopoiesis, followed in some instances by progression to myeloid malignancies, specifically myelodysplastic syndrome, acute myelogenous leukemia, and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. The latter 3 malignancies often occur in the setting of monosomy 7, trisomy 8, and acquired mutations in ASXL1 or in STAG2. Importantly, myeloid malignancy may represent the primary presentation of disease without recognition of other syndromic features. Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) results in reversal of the phenotype. There remain important unanswered questions in GATA2 deficiency, including the following: (1) Why do some family members remain asymptomatic despite harboring deleterious mutations in GATA2? (2) What are the genetic changes that lead to myeloid progression? (3) What causes the apparent genetic anticipation? (4) What is the role of preemptive HSCT?

Indexed as

GATA2 DeficiencyMyelodysplastic SyndromesMyeloproliferative DisordersGATA2 Transcription FactorGerm-Line MutationHumansMutationGATA2 protein, humanGATA2 Transcription Factor

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PMID36455197
PMCPMC10082373
OpenAlexW4310602582

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