UOSD Laboratory of Genetics and Genomics of Rare Diseases, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, 16148 Genoa, Italy.
Hematology-Oncology Stem Cell Transplantation Pole, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, 16148 Genoa, Italy.
Genes (Basel). 2021 Aug 24;12(9):1299. doi: 10.3390/genes12091299.
Inborn errors of immunity (IEI) include a large group of inherited diseases sharing either poor, dysregulated, or absent and/or acquired function in one or more components of the immune system. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has driven a rapid increase in the recognition of such defects, though the wide heterogeneity of genetically diverse but phenotypically overlapping diseases has often prevented the molecular characterization of the most complex patients. Two hundred and seventy-two patients were submitted to three successive NGS-based gene panels composed of 58, 146, and 312 genes. Along with pathogenic and likely pathogenic causative gene variants, accounting for the corresponding disorders (37/272 patients, 13.6%), a number of either rare (probably) damaging variants in genes unrelated to patients' phenotype, variants of unknown significance (VUS) in genes consistent with their clinics, or apparently inconsistent benign, likely benign, or VUS variants were also detected. Finally, a remarkable amount of yet unreported variants of unknown significance were also found, often recurring in our dataset. The NGS approach demonstrated an expected IEI diagnostic rate. However, defining the appropriate list of genes for these panels may not be straightforward, and the application of unbiased approaches should be taken into consideration, especially when patients show atypical clinical pictures.
先天性免疫缺陷(IEI)包括一大组遗传性疾病,这些疾病在免疫系统的一个或多个组成部分中存在功能不良、失调或缺失,以及/或者获得性功能障碍。下一代测序(NGS)技术的发展使得人们对这些缺陷的认识迅速增加,尽管具有遗传多样性但表型重叠的疾病的广泛异质性常常阻止了最复杂患者的分子特征描述。对 272 名患者进行了三次连续的基于 NGS 的基因panel 检测,这些 panel 包含 58、146 和 312 个基因。除了致病性和可能致病性的致病基因突变,这些基因突变可导致相应的疾病(37/272 名患者,13.6%)外,还在与患者表型无关的基因中发现了一些罕见(可能)有害的变异体、与患者临床情况一致的基因中的意义不明的变异体(VUS),或者明显不一致的良性、可能良性或 VUS 变异体。最后,还发现了大量尚未报道的意义不明的变异体,这些变异体通常在我们的数据集内反复出现。NGS 方法显示出预期的 IEI 诊断率。然而,为这些 panel 定义适当的基因列表可能并不简单,应该考虑采用无偏倚的方法,特别是当患者表现出非典型临床症状时。
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