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ArticleCell2025

Scalable generation and functional classification of genetic variants in inborn errors of immunity to accelerate clinical diagnosis and treatment.

Zachary H Walsh, Chris J Frangieh, Neeharika Kothapalli, Jay Levy, Clarissa K Heck, Johannes C Melms, Ron S Gejman, Parin Shah, Jared M Pollard, Akul Naik and 6 more

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Article in Cell, 2025. 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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1 · What the graph read from it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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16 authors.

Zachary H WalshColumbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, New York, NY, USA; Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Chris J FrangiehColumbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, New York, NY, USA; Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Neeharika KothapalliColumbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, New York, NY, USA; Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Jay LevyDepartment of Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY.
Clarissa K HeckColumbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, New York, NY, USA; Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Johannes C MelmsColumbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, New York, NY, USA; Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Ron S GejmanColumbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, New York, NY, USA; Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Parin ShahDepartment of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, New York, NY, USA; Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Jared M PollardColumbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA.
Akul NaikColumbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA.
Sarah L GraumanColumbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA.
Lei Haley HuangDepartment of Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY.
Ashley LeeDepartment of Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY.
Dusan BogunovicDepartment of Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY.
Joshua D MilnerDepartment of Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY. Electronic address: jdm2249@cumc.columbia.edu.
Benjamin IzarColumbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, New York, NY, USA; Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; Department of Systems Biology, Program for Mathematical Genomics, Columbia University, New York, NY. Electronic address: bi2175@cumc.columbia.edu.

Funding

Tumor Biology and Microenvironment ProgramP30CA013696 · NCI · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI Anil K Rustgi · 1985 to 2026
$115.3M
Studying the evolution of drug resistance in prostate cancer at the single cell levelU54CA274506 · NCI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Peter Alan Sims · 2023 to 2026
$9.1M
Medical Scientist Training ProgramT32GM145440 · NIGMS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI STEVEN L REINER · 2022 to 2026
$7.3M
Human ISG15 and USP18 Deficiencies Underlying Type I InterferonopathiesR01AI127372 · NIAID · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI Dusan Bogunovic · 2017 to 2026
$4.7M
Next Generation Resolution of Antiviral Gene NetworksR01AI151029 · NIAID · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI Dusan Bogunovic, Brad Rosenberg · 2020 to 2026
$4.2M
Multi-cellular interactions defining the human brain metastatic nicheR01CA280414 · NCI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Benjamin Izar, Ashley Marie Laughney · 2023 to 2026
$2.8M
Mechanisms of liver metastasis and associated resistance to immunotherapyR37CA258829 · NCI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Benjamin Izar · 2021 to 2026
$2.6M
Inborn Errors of Immunity Leading to Autoinflammatory SyndromesR01AI148963 · NIAID · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI BOGUNOVIC, DUSAN · 2020 to 2024
$2.5M
The role of the CD58:CD2 axis in cancer immune evasion and resistance to immunotherapyR01CA266446 · NCI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI FRANGIEH, CHRISTOPHER · 2022 to 2025
$2.0M
Dissecting the impact of genomic variants on hallmarks of T cell anti-tumor activityF30CA298572 · NCI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Zachary Hudson Walsh · 2025 to 2026
$104k
NCI NIH HHS F30 CA298572NCI NIH HHS P30 CA013696NCI NIH HHS R01 CA266446NCI NIH HHS R01 CA280414NCI NIH HHS R37 CA258829NCI NIH HHS U54 CA274506NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI127372NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI148963NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI151029NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM145440
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Next-generation sequencing is pivotal for diagnosing inborn errors of immunity (IEI) but predominantly yields variants of uncertain significance (VUS), creating clinical ambiguity. Activated PI3Kδ syndrome (APDS) is caused by gain-of-function (GOF) variants in PIK3CD or PIK3R1, which encode the PI3Kδ heterodimer. We performed massively parallel base editing of PIK3CD/PIK3R1 in human T cells and mapped thousands of variants to a clinically important readout (phospho-AKT/S6), nominating >100 VUS and unannotated variants for functional classification and validating 27 hits. Leniolisib, an FDA-approved PI3Kδ inhibitor, rescued aberrant signaling and dysfunction in GOF-harboring T cells and revealed partially drug-resistant PIK3R1 hotspots that responded to novel combination therapies of leniolisib with mTORC1/2 inhibition. We confirmed these findings in T cells from APDS patients spanning the functional spectrum discovered in the screen. Integrating our screens with population-level genomic studies revealed that APDS may be more prevalent than previously estimated. This work exemplifies a broadly applicable framework for removing ambiguity from sequencing in IEI.

Indexed as

Class Ia Phosphatidylinositol 3-KinaseClass I Phosphatidylinositol 3-KinasesGenetic VariationPrimary Immunodeficiency DiseasesGain of Function MutationHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansSignal TransductionT-LymphocytesClass Ia Phosphatidylinositol 3-KinaseClass I Phosphatidylinositol 3-KinasesPIK3CD protein, humanPIK3R1 protein, humanactivated PI3K delta syndromeAPDSclinical NGSCRISPR base editinggenome engineeringinborn errors of immunityprecision medicineprimary T cellsvariant classificationVUS

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