| Literature DB >> 30891747 |
Wenyi Shen1,2, Cassandra M Kerr1, Bartlomiej Przychozen1, Reda Z Mahfouz1, Thomas LaFramboise3, Yasunobu Nagata1, Rabi Hanna4, Tomas Radivoyevitch5, Aziz Nazha1, Mikkael A Sekeres1, Jaroslaw P Maciejewski1.
Abstract
Compound heterozygous germline mutations in CTC1 gene have been found in patients with atypical dyskeratosis congenita (DC), whereas heterozygous carriers are unaffected. Through screening of a large cohort of adult patients with acquired bone marrow failure syndromes, in addition to a DC case, we have also found extremely rare or novel heterozygous deleterious germline variants of CTC1 in patients with aplastic anaemia (AA; n = 5), paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH; n = 3) and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS; n = 2). A compound heterozygous case of AA showed clonal evolution. Our results suggest that some of the inherited CTC1 variants may represent predisposition factors for acquired bone marrow failure.Entities:
Keywords: zzm321990CTC1zzm321990; bone marrow failure; germline variant; heterozygous; telomere length
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Year: 2019 PMID: 30891747 PMCID: PMC6536344 DOI: 10.1111/bjh.15862
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Br J Haematol ISSN: 0007-1048 Impact factor: 8.615