双等位基因 ZNFX1 变异与一系列免疫血液学异常有关。
Biallelic ZNFX1 variants are associated with a spectrum of immuno-hematological abnormalities.
机构信息
Genomic Research & Medical Reporting, CENTOGENE GmbH, Rostock, Germany.
Institute of Neurogenetics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
出版信息
Clin Genet. 2022 Feb;101(2):247-254. doi: 10.1111/cge.14081. Epub 2021 Nov 6.
Biallelic changes in the ZNFX1 gene have been recently reported to cause severe familial immunodeficiency. Through a search of our bio/databank with information from genetic testing of >55 000 individuals, we identified nine additional patients from seven families with six novel homozygous ZNFX1 variants. Consistent with the previously described phenotype, our patients suffered from monocytosis, thrombocytopenia, hepatosplenomegaly, recurrent infections, and lymphadenopathy. The two most severely affected probands also had renal involvement and clinical presentations compatible with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. The disease was less lethal among our patients than previously reported. We identified two missense changes, two variants predicted to result in complete protein loss through nonsense-mediated decay, and two frameshift changes that likely introduce a truncation. Our findings (i) independently confirm the role of ZNFX1 in primary genetic immunodeficiency, (ii) expand the genetic and clinical spectrum of ZNFX1-related disease, and (iii) illustrate the utility of large, well-curated, and continually updated genotype-phenotype databases in resolving molecular diagnoses of patients with initially negative genetic testing findings.
最近有报道称,ZNFX1 基因的双等位基因突变可导致严重的家族性免疫缺陷。通过对我们的生物/数据库进行搜索,这些信息来自对超过 55000 个人的基因检测,我们从 7 个家系的 9 位患者中鉴定出 6 种新的纯合 ZNFX1 变异体。与先前描述的表型一致,我们的患者患有单核细胞增多症、血小板减少症、肝脾肿大、反复感染和淋巴结病。受影响最严重的两个先证者还存在肾脏受累和噬血细胞性淋巴组织细胞增多症的临床表现。与之前的报道相比,我们的患者疾病致死率较低。我们鉴定出两种错义突变、两种预测通过无义介导的衰变导致完全蛋白缺失的变异体、以及两种可能引入截断的移码突变。我们的发现:(i)独立证实了 ZNFX1 在原发性遗传免疫缺陷中的作用;(ii)扩展了 ZNFX1 相关疾病的遗传和临床谱;(iii)说明了大型、精心整理和持续更新的基因型-表型数据库在解决最初基因检测结果阴性的患者的分子诊断中的效用。