| Literature DB >> 21892158 |
Pia Ostergaard1, Michael A Simpson, Fiona C Connell, Colin G Steward, Glen Brice, Wesley J Woollard, Dimitra Dafou, Tatjana Kilo, Sarah Smithson, Peter Lunt, Victoria A Murday, Shirley Hodgson, Russell Keenan, Daniela T Pilz, Ines Martinez-Corral, Taija Makinen, Peter S Mortimer, Steve Jeffery, Richard C Trembath, Sahar Mansour.
Abstract
We report an allelic series of eight mutations in GATA2 underlying Emberger syndrome, an autosomal dominant primary lymphedema associated with a predisposition to acute myeloid leukemia. GATA2 is a transcription factor that plays an essential role in gene regulation during vascular development and hematopoietic differentiation. Our findings indicate that haploinsufficiency of GATA2 underlies primary lymphedema and predisposes to acute myeloid leukemia in this syndrome.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21892158 DOI: 10.1038/ng.923
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Genet ISSN: 1061-4036 Impact factor: 38.330