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ReviewNature reviews. Rheumatology2024

Somatic mutations in autoinflammatory and autoimmune disease.

Sofia Torreggiani, Flore S Castellan, Ivona Aksentijevich, David B Beck

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Review in Nature reviews. Rheumatology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Somatic Variants in Immune Dysregulation: An Ongoing Challenge.Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2026
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  5. A truncatingFrontiers in immunology · 2026
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  6. Molecular diagnostics 101: how to use genetic tests in classical hematology.Hematology. American Society of Hematology. Education Program · 2025
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  11. Somatic mosaicism in genetic errors of immunity.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sofia TorreggianiInflammatory Disease Section, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. sofia.torreggiani@nih.gov.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0439-4046
Flore S CastellanCenter for Human Genetics and Genomics, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8764-6151
Ivona AksentijevichInflammatory Disease Section, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6564-7214
David B BeckCenter for Human Genetics and Genomics, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. David.Beck@nyulangone.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5884-6231

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Somatic mutations (also known as acquired mutations) are emerging as common, age-related processes that occur in all cells throughout the body. Somatic mutations are canonically linked to malignant processes but over the past decade have been increasingly causally connected to benign diseases including rheumatic conditions. Here we outline the contribution of somatic mutations to complex and monogenic immunological diseases with a detailed review of unique aspects associated with such causes. Somatic mutations can cause early- or late-onset rheumatic monogenic diseases but also contribute to the pathogenesis of complex inflammatory and immune-mediated diseases, affect disease progression and define new clinical subtypes. Although even variants with a low variant allele fraction can be pathogenic, clonal dynamics could lead to changes over time in the proportion of mutant cells, with possible phenotypic consequences for the individual. Thus, somatic mutagenesis and clonal expansion have relevant implications in genetic testing and counselling. On the basis of both increased recognition of somatic diseases in clinical practice and improved technical and bioinformatic processes, we hypothesize that there will be an ever-expanding list of somatic mutations in various genes leading to inflammatory conditions, particularly in late-onset disease.

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Autoimmune DiseasesMutationGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseHereditary Autoinflammatory DiseasesHumansInflammationRheumatic Diseases

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