TY - JOUR
T1 - Insights into Mutation Effect in Three Poikiloderma with Neutropenia Patients by Transcript Analysis and Disease Evolution of Reported Patients with the Same Pathogenic Variants
AU - Colombo, Elisa A.
AU - Elcioglu, Nursel H.
AU - Graziano, Claudio
AU - Farinelli, Pamela
AU - Di Fede, Elisabetta
AU - Neri, Iria
AU - Facchini, Elena
AU - Greco, Mariangela
AU - Gervasini, Cristina
AU - Larizza, Lidia
PY - 2018/5/1
Y1 - 2018/5/1
N2 - Purpose: Poikiloderma with neutropenia (PN) is a genodermatosis currently described in 77 patients, all presenting with early-onset poikiloderma, neutropenia, and several additional signs. Biallelic loss-of-function mutations in USB1 gene are detected in all molecularly tested patients but genotype-phenotype correlation remains elusive. Cancer predisposition is recognized among PN features and pathogenic variants found in patients who developed early in life myelodysplasia (n = 12), acute myeloid leukemia (n = 2), and squamous cell carcinoma (n = 2) should be kept into account in management and follow-up of novel patients. This will hopefully allow achieving data clustered on specific mutations relevant to oncological surveillance of the carrier patients. Methods: We describe the clinical features of three unreported PN patients and characterize their USB1 pathogenic variants by transcript analysis to get insights into the effect on the overall phenotype and disease evolution. Results: A Turkish boy is homozygous for the c.531delA deletion, a recurrent mutation in Turkey; an adult Italian male is compound heterozygous for two nonsense mutations, c.243G>A and c.541C>T, while an Italian boy is homozygous for the splicing c.683_693+1del variant. The identified mutations have already been reported in PN patients who developed hematologic or skin cancer. Aberrant mRNAs of all four mutated alleles could be identified confirming that transcripts of USB1 main isoform either carrying stop codons or mis-spliced may at least partially escape nonsense-mediated decay. Conclusions: Our study addresses the need of gathering insights on genotype-phenotype correlations in newly described PN patients, by transcript analysis and information on disease evolution of reported patients with the same pathogenic variants.
AB - Purpose: Poikiloderma with neutropenia (PN) is a genodermatosis currently described in 77 patients, all presenting with early-onset poikiloderma, neutropenia, and several additional signs. Biallelic loss-of-function mutations in USB1 gene are detected in all molecularly tested patients but genotype-phenotype correlation remains elusive. Cancer predisposition is recognized among PN features and pathogenic variants found in patients who developed early in life myelodysplasia (n = 12), acute myeloid leukemia (n = 2), and squamous cell carcinoma (n = 2) should be kept into account in management and follow-up of novel patients. This will hopefully allow achieving data clustered on specific mutations relevant to oncological surveillance of the carrier patients. Methods: We describe the clinical features of three unreported PN patients and characterize their USB1 pathogenic variants by transcript analysis to get insights into the effect on the overall phenotype and disease evolution. Results: A Turkish boy is homozygous for the c.531delA deletion, a recurrent mutation in Turkey; an adult Italian male is compound heterozygous for two nonsense mutations, c.243G>A and c.541C>T, while an Italian boy is homozygous for the splicing c.683_693+1del variant. The identified mutations have already been reported in PN patients who developed hematologic or skin cancer. Aberrant mRNAs of all four mutated alleles could be identified confirming that transcripts of USB1 main isoform either carrying stop codons or mis-spliced may at least partially escape nonsense-mediated decay. Conclusions: Our study addresses the need of gathering insights on genotype-phenotype correlations in newly described PN patients, by transcript analysis and information on disease evolution of reported patients with the same pathogenic variants.
KW - cancer predisposition
KW - disease phenotype
KW - Poikiloderma with neutropenia
KW - transcript analysis
KW - USB1
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U2 - 10.1007/s10875-018-0508-9
DO - 10.1007/s10875-018-0508-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85047116291
VL - 38
SP - 494
EP - 502
JO - Journal of Clinical Immunology
JF - Journal of Clinical Immunology
SN - 0271-9142
IS - 4
ER -