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ReviewAdvances in experimental medicine and biology2024

Genetics of Acquired Cytokine Storm Syndromes : Secondary HLH Genetics.

Grant S Schulert, Kejian Zhang

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Review in Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Perforin Expression and Natural Killer-Cell Proportion as Biomarkers in Secondary Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Grant S SchulertDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA. Grant.Schulert@cchmc.org.
Kejian ZhangSema4 and Department of Genetic and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Secondary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (sHLH) has historically been defined as a cytokine storm syndrome (CSS) occurring in the setting of triggers leading to strong and dysregulated immunological activation, without known genetic predilection. However, recent studies have suggested that existing underlying genetic factors may synergize with particular diseases and/or environmental triggers (including infection, autoimmune/autoinflammatory disorder, certain biologic therapies, or malignant transformation), leading to sHLH. With the recent advances in genetic testing technology, more patients are examined for genetic variations in primary HLH (pHLH)-associated genes, including through whole exome and whole genome sequencing. This expanding genetic and genomic evidence has revealed HLH as a more complex phenomenon, resulting from specific immune challenges in patients with a susceptible genetic background. Rather than a simple, binary definition of pHLH and sHLH, HLH represents a spectrum of diseases, from a severe complication of common infections (EBV, influenza) to early onset familial diseases that can only be cured by transplantation.

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Cytokine Release SyndromeGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseLymphohistiocytosis, HemophagocyticHumansAutoimmuneAutoinflammatoryEBVInfectionsInflammatoryMalignanciesMASpHLHRheumatic diseasesSecondarysHLH

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PMID39117810

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