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Mace EM, Orange JS. Discovering the Cause of Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome and Laying the Foundation for Understanding Immune Cell Structuring. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2018; 200:3667-3670. [PMID: 29784762 PMCID: PMC8934138 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1800518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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- Emily M Mace
- Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030; and Center for Human Immunobiology, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX 77030
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- Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030; and Center for Human Immunobiology, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX 77030
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Core 2N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase activity: a diagnostic marker for Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00919299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Yu H, Liu T, Meng W, Hou L. A novel WASP gene mutation in a Chinese boy with Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome. Int J Hematol 2010; 92:271-5. [DOI: 10.1007/s12185-010-0644-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2009] [Revised: 07/02/2010] [Accepted: 07/12/2010] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Zhang J, Dong B, Siminovitch KA. Contributions of Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome family cytoskeletal regulatory adapters to immune regulation. Immunol Rev 2009; 232:175-94. [PMID: 19909364 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065x.2009.00846.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Cytoskeletal structure and dynamic rearrangement are integrally involved in coupling external stimuli to the orchestrated network of molecular interactions and cellular responses required for T-cell effector function. Members of the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (WASp) family are now widely recognized as cytoskeletal scaffolding adapters that coordinate the transmission of stimulatory signals to downstream induction of actin remodeling and cytoskeletal-dependent T-cell responses. In this review, we discuss the structural and functional properties of the WASp family members, with an emphasis on the roles of these proteins in the molecular pathways underpinning T-cell activation. The contributions of WASp family proteins and the cytoskeletal reorganization they evoke to expression of specific T-cell effector functions and the implications of such activity to normal immune responses and to the immunologic deficits manifested by Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome patients are also described.
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- Jinyi Zhang
- Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Mount Sinai Hospital Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Luthi JN, Gandhi MJ, Drachman JG. X-linked thrombocytopenia caused by a mutation in the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) gene that disrupts interaction with the WAS protein (WASP)-interacting protein (WIP). Exp Hematol 2003; 31:150-8. [PMID: 12591280 DOI: 10.1016/s0301-472x(02)01023-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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OBJECTIVE We studied two adult brothers with severe congenital thrombocytopenia in order to determine the genetic etiology of their inherited disorder. Despite the absence of eczema or immunodeficiency, a mutation of the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) gene was suspected because of the presence of microthrombocytes. MATERIALS AND METHODS Peripheral blood was obtained for characterization of hematopoietic cells and megakaryocyte progenitors. The coding region of the WAS gene was fully sequenced, and expression of the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein, WASP, was evaluated by immunoblotting. The ability of WASP to physically associate with the WASP-interacting protein, WIP, was tested by yeast and mammalian two-hybrid techniques. RESULTS In addition to thrombocytopenia, our investigation revealed an increased frequency of peripheral megakaryocyte progenitors (CFU-Mk) and incomplete cytoplasmic maturation by electron microscopy. Sequencing the WAS gene revealed a single base mutation, resulting in substitution of proline for arginine 138 (i.e., Arg138Pro). Immunoblotting demonstrated reduced expression of the mutant WAS protein, and we showed that the Arg138Pro mutation significantly, but incompletely, disrupts WASP-WIP interaction. CONCLUSIONS In this pedigree, X-linked thrombocytopenia is caused by a rare mutation in the fourth exon of the WAS gene. WASP levels are reduced in lymphocyte cell lines derived from the affected individuals. Furthermore, the mutation significantly but incompletely disrupts WASP-WIP interaction, whereas substitution of alanine or glutamic acid residues at the same position does not. This raises the possibility that protein-protein interaction and WASP stability are related properties.
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- Jennifer N Luthi
- Puget Sound Blood Center and Program, 921 Terry Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
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Siminovitch KA. Prenatal diagnosis and genetic analysis of Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome. Prenat Diagn 2003; 23:1014-6. [PMID: 14663840 DOI: 10.1002/pd.745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Immune dysregulation, polyendocrinopathy, enteropathy, X-linked syndrome and the scurfy mutant mouse. Immunol Allergy Clin North Am 2002. [DOI: 10.1016/s0889-8561(01)00004-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Fillat C, Español T, Oset M, Ferrando M, Estivill X, Volpini V. Identification of WASP mutations in 14 Spanish families with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS 2001; 100:116-21. [PMID: 11298372 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) is an X-linked immunodeficiency caused by mutations in the WASP gene. The disease is known to be associated with extensive clinical variability, and mutation studies indicate that genotypes are also highly variant among WAS patients. In this study, we performed mutation analysis of the WASP gene in 14 unrelated Spanish families by single strand conformation analysis (SSCA) and sequencing, resulting in the identification of a novel mutation and nine known mutations. No mutation was identified in one family. The ten different mutations include point mutations resulting in amino acid substitutions, stop codons, and small deletions and insertions causing frameshifts. Missense mutations were preferentially located in the amino-terminal part of the protein, exons 2 and 4, whereas stop and frameshift mutations were located in the carboxyl-terminal region, exons 10 and 11. However, in two families, two missense mutations in exon 11 were identified. Our study demonstrates that WASP genotypes have some concordance with the patients' phenotypes, although mutation 1019delC, identified in a family with several affected members, resulted in high intrafamilial clinical variability.
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- C Fillat
- Centre de Genètica Mèdica i Molecular, Institut de Recerca Oncològica (IRO), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.
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Snapper SB, Rosen FS. The Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (WASP): roles in signaling and cytoskeletal organization. Annu Rev Immunol 1999; 17:905-29. [PMID: 10358777 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.immunol.17.1.905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 175] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome (WAS) is a rare X-linked primary immunodeficiency that is characterized by recurrent infections, hematopoietic malignancies, eczema, and thrombocytopenia. A variety of hematopoietic cells are affected by the genetic defect, including lymphocytes, neutrophils, monocytes, and platelets. Early studies noted both signaling and cytoskeletal abnormalities in lymphocytes from WAS patients. Following the identification of WASP, the gene mutated in patients with this syndrome, and the more generally expressed WASP homologue N-WASP, studies have demonstrated that WASP-family molecules associate with numerous signaling molecules known to alter the actin cytoskeleton. WASP/N-WASP may depolymerize actin directly and/or serve as an adaptor or scaffold for these signaling molecules in a complex cascade that regulates the cytoskeleton.
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- S B Snapper
- Center for Blood Research, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- H D Ochs
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle 98195-6320, USA
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- C I Smith
- Department of Clinical Immunology, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge, Sweden
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Schwarz K, Nonoyama S, Peitsch MC, de Saint Basile G, Espanol T, Fasth A, Fischer A, Freitag K, Friedrich W, Fugmann S, Hossle HP, Jones A, Kinnon C, Meindl A, Notarangelo LD, Wechsler A, Weiss M, Ochs HD. WASPbase: a database of WAS- and XLT-causing mutations. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-5699(96)80901-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Thrombocytopenia may be the presenting finding for both Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome and Fanconi anemia. We examined a sibship of four boys who had features of both of these hematologic disorders. Peripheral blood lymphocytes from three of the boys demonstrated DNA instability when cultured with diepoxybutane, confirming the diagnosis of Fanconi anemia in these patients. However, results of linkage analysis and X chromosome inactivation studies were consistent with the diagnosis of Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome in two of the boys, including one of the boys with Fanconi anemia. These findings could be attributed to the occurrence of two rare genetic disorders in a single family or to an unusual variant of Fanconi anemia. The recent identification of the Wiskott-Aldrich gene permitted us to address this question directly. Epstein-Barr virus-transformed cell lines from the two boys thought to have Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome on the basis of linkage analysis failed to express transcripts for the Wiskott-Aldrich gene. Genomic DNA from these two patients demonstrated a G insertion in the tenth exon of the Wiskott-Aldrich gene, resulting in a frameshift and a premature stop codon. Surprisingly, the patient with Fanconi anemia and a null mutation in the Wiskott-Aldrich gene had typical Fanconi anemia but mild Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome.
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- J Rohrer
- Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
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Bennett CP, Barnicoat AJ, Cotter F, Wang Q, Mathew CG. A variant of Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome with nephropathy is linked to DXS255. J Med Genet 1995; 32:757-8. [PMID: 8544203 PMCID: PMC1051687 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.32.9.757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Kwan SP, Hagemann TL, Radtke BE, Blaese RM, Rosen FS. Identification of mutations in the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome gene and characterization of a polymorphic dinucleotide repeat at DXS6940, adjacent to the disease gene. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1995; 92:4706-10. [PMID: 7753869 PMCID: PMC42013 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.92.10.4706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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The Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) is an X-chromosome-linked recessive disease characterized by eczema, thrombocytopenia, and immunodeficiency. The disease gene has been localized to the proximal short arm of the X chromosome and recently isolated through positional cloning. The function of the encoded protein remains undetermined. In this study we have characterized mutations in 12 unrelated patients to confirm the identity of the disease gene. We have also revised the coding sequence and genomic structure for the WAS gene. To analyze further the transmittance of the disease gene, we have characterized a polymorphic microsatellite at the DXS6940 locus within 30 kb of the gene and demonstrate the inheritance of the affected alleles in families with a history of WAS.
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- S P Kwan
- Department of Immunology, Rush Medical School, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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Mathew P, Conley ME. Effect of intravenous gammaglobulin (IVIG) on the platelet count in patients with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome. Pediatr Allergy Immunol 1995; 6:91-4. [PMID: 7581726 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3038.1995.tb00265.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The ability of IVIG to increase platelet counts in patients with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura suggests its potential usefulness in other disease states characterized by low platelet counts. This possibility was evaluated in nine patients with the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) who received IVIG, at a dose of 400 mg/kg every 4 weeks. The mean platelet count prior to institution of IVIG was 32,000/cumm (range 2,400 to 98,000). Following administration of IVIG, the platelet count ranged between 5,000 and 85,000/cumm. There were no immediate increases in platelet counts after IVIG infusion in any patient who had serial platelet counts. During treatment, patients were not given any routine platelet transfusions for low platelet counts. However, while on IVIG, two patients showed a good response to platelet transfusion prior to surgical procedures. In conclusion, chronic IVIG therapy does not appear to affect platelet counts in patients with the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome.
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- P Mathew
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Dept. of Hematology/Oncology, Memphis, TN 38101-0318, USA
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Grierson AJ, Hammond DW, Goepel JR, Hancock BW, Goyns MH. Investigation of the activation state of the X chromosome in non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. Ann Oncol 1994; 5 Suppl 1:47-50. [PMID: 8172817 DOI: 10.1093/annonc/5.suppl_1.s47] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Cytogenetic analysis of non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs) has previously revealed a high incidence of numerical abnormalities involving the X chromosome. We have now used a combination of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and Southern blot analysis of methylation to examine the activation state of additional X chromosomes in NHL. Although FISH analysis of X chromosome centromeres in interphase nuclei was complicated by a number of factors, such as cell-cycle position, there was evidence that more than one X chromosome was present in the active state in 4/9 NHL. Methylation studies were carried out using the M27 beta probe, which also suggested that more than one activated X chromosome was present in at least 2/7 NHL cases. The two approaches therefore provided evidence that in some cases of NHL, unlike sex-chromosome-syndrome individuals, additional X chromosomes may be present in the active state. These data support the suggestion that NHL-associated oncogenes might be located on the X chromosome.
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- A J Grierson
- Department of Clinical Oncology, University Medical School, Sheffield, UK
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A Saudi Arab boy presented in early childhood with thrombocytopenia, morphologically large and normal sized platelets, increased mean platelet volume, and a hypermegakaryocytic bone marrow. There was no clinical and laboratory evidence of any significant immunological abnormalities. Similar findings in two other brothers suggested strongly that they were all suffering from an X linked recessive thrombocytopenic disorder. Results of DNA analysis with the probe M27 beta are consistent with X linkage and indicate also that the locus of the relevant gene lies close to or is identical to the locus of the gene for the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS). Because of various features which include the presence of large and normal sized platelets (rather than small platelets) and freedom from significant immune deficiencies, it is likely that the X linked recessive thrombocytopenia in this family is an isolated entity quite distinct from the classical WAS phenotype. However, a modified expression of the WAS gene producing a mild phenotypic variant cannot be excluded entirely.
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- H H Knox-Macaulay
- Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Cremin SM, Greer WL, Bodok-Nutzati R, Schwartz M, Peacocke M, Siminovitch KA. Linkage of Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome with three marker loci, DXS426, SYP and TFE3, which map to the Xp11.3-p11.22 region. Hum Genet 1993; 92:250-3. [PMID: 8104859 DOI: 10.1007/bf00244467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Linkage analysis was performed in 19 families segregating for the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) and in 1 family with X-linked thrombocytopenia using nine polymorphic DNA markers spanning the interval DXS7-DXS14. The results confirm close linkage of WAS to the DXS7, TIMP, OATL1, DXS255, DXS146, and DXS14 loci and reveal three additional marker loci, DXS426, SYP, and TFE3, to be closely linked to WAS. The linkage data are also consistent with the localization of X-linked thrombocytopenia to the same chromosomal region as WAS and support localization of the WAS gene between the TIMP and DXS146 loci. However, the data were insufficient for positioning these disease genes with respect to the four marker loci that map within this latter interval. Analysis of recombination events between the marker loci place the TFE3 gene distal to DXS255 and favor the marker loci order Xpter-DXS7-(DXS426, TIMP)-(OATL1, SYP, TFE3)-DXS255-DXS146-DXS14.
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- S M Cremin
- Department of Medicine, Immunology and Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Notarangelo LD, Candotti F, Parolini O, Mantuano E, Giliani S, Lanfranchi A, Albertini A. Application of molecular analysis to genetic counseling in the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS). DNA Cell Biol 1993; 12:645-9. [PMID: 8397823 DOI: 10.1089/dna.1993.12.645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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The Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) is a severe X-linked, recessive disorder, with a high mortality rate at early age due to hemorrhages, infections, and lymphoid malignancies. The molecular pathogenesis of the disease is unknown. Carrier females of WAS are clinically and immunologically normal, thus precluding carrier detection by simple laboratory tests. Major advances in molecular genetics have allowed mapping of the WAS gene to the pericentromeric short arm of the X chromosome, and have made carrier detection and prenatal diagnosis feasible by segregation analysis with closely linked polymorphic DNA markers. Furthermore, the observation that carriers of WAS exhibit a unilateral inactivation of the X chromosome in hematopoietic cells has provided a new tool for carrier detection. However, critical interpretation of molecular analysis data is essential to provide accurate genetic counseling to WAS families.
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- L D Notarangelo
- Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Brescia, Italy
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Wiskott Aldrich syndrome, a combined cellular and humoral X-linked immunodeficiency, is generally considered to be rare. The aim of this study was to ascertain the true prevalence in the paediatric population in Western Australia, describe the clinical features, and summarise the current literature on this unusual condition. All cases of Wiskott Aldrich syndrome presenting to Princess Margaret Hospital in Perth during the period from January 1960 to January 1990 were identified by a retrospective review of case records and by interviewing hospital immunology, haematology and general clinical staff. Nine cases of Wiskott Aldrich syndrome are described, demonstrating that the prevalence of Wiskott Aldrich syndrome in Western Australia is nine times that expected from previous reports. Death occurred in a number of patients before the correct diagnosis was recognised. The clinical features in this group are quite variable. Low isohaemagglutinins, elevated IgE, blunted DTH skin multitest, and very low CD8 numbers are however consistent features. Wiskott Aldrich syndrome may be more prevalent than previously recognised, and should be considered in males with thrombocytopenia and infection.
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- C Somerville
- Department of Immunology, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Perth, Australia
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Allan AE, Tsou HC, Harrington A, Stasko T, Lee X, Si SP, Grande DJ, Peacocke M. Clonal origin of dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans. J Invest Dermatol 1993; 100:99-102. [PMID: 8381450 DOI: 10.1111/1523-1747.ep12462767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) is a malignant tumor originating in the dermis. Although it is known to be locally aggressive, it only rarely metastasizes and will recur unless completely excised. The exact cell responsible for the development of a DFSP has been a matter of controversy for several decades; however, most histochemical and electron microscopic studies support a fibroblastic origin, with the tumor cells staining uniformly for vimentin and containing active endoplasmic reticulum synthesizing collagen. Cytogenetic analysis of some of these tumors has demonstrated at least two specific chromosomal abnormalities in DFSP and suggested that this tumor may be polyclonal in origin. To further address the clonal origin of this locally invasive, mesenchymal tumor, we analyzed DNA from two female patients by restriction fragment length polymorphisms and methylation analysis. Our data strongly support the concept that DFSP is monoclonal in origin and that this tumor mass reflects the clonal expansion of a single cell.
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- A E Allan
- Department of Dermatology, New England Medical Center, Boston, MA 02111
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The Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome is an uncommon X-linked recessive disease characterized by eczema, thrombocytopenia, and immunodeficiency. The clinical features begin early in life and include recurrent infections, bleeding, and severe eczema. Unless the condition is treated by bone marrow transplantation, the prognosis of Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome is grave, and premature death caused by sepsis, hemorrhage, or lymphoreticular malignancy is common. Although the biochemical defect responsible for the syndrome is not known, recent investigations with restriction fragment length polymorphisms have mapped the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome locus to the proximal portion of the short arm of the human X chromosome (Xp11). The isolation of these DNA markers makes feasible both carrier detection and prenatal diagnosis of Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome and provides an important adjunct to the management of Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome for patients and their families. These genetic data, in conjunction with the recent identification of a specific O-glycosylation defect in lymphocytes from patients with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, present an opportunity for the eventual isolation of the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome gene and identification of the underlying cellular defect. We review the clinical and laboratory features of this syndrome and summarize the new molecular and biochemical approaches that can be used in diagnosis, genetic counseling, and treatment.
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- M Peacocke
- Department of Dermatology, New England Medical Center, Boston, MA 02111
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Meropol NJ, Hicks D, Brooks JJ, Siminovitch KA, Fishman NO, Kant JA, Bennett JS. Coincident Kaposi sarcoma and T-cell lymphoma in a patient with the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome. Am J Hematol 1992; 40:126-34. [PMID: 1316718 DOI: 10.1002/ajh.2830400210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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A 24 year old male with a history of eczema, recurrent mild infections, and thrombocytopenia consistent with the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) presented with a mediastinal mass, generalized lymphadenopathy, splenomegaly, and severe thrombocytopenia. Studies of immune function including immunoglobulin levels and T-cell subsets were normal. Furthermore, his T lymphocytes proliferated normally in response to phytohemagglutinin, concanavalin A, and the combination of neuraminidase/galactose oxidase. However, their proliferative responses to anti-CD43 antibody and periodate were diminished, consistent with the clinical diagnosis of WAS. An initial inguinal lymph node biopsy surprisingly revealed Kaposi sarcoma. However, following splenectomy to increase the platelet count, biopsy of the mediastinal mass revealed T-cell large cell lymphoma. Studies of biopsied tissue for the presence of Epstein-Barr virus and cytomegalovirus were negative, as were studies of blood, including the polymerase chain reaction, for the presence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This is the first report of Kaposi sarcoma arising in a patient with a congenital immunodeficiency syndrome. Although Kaposi sarcoma can arise in the face of the severe immunosuppression that follows allograft transplantation and in patients infected with HIV, we postulate that longevity in the face of mild immunosuppression was the major factor in the development of Kaposi sarcoma in this patient.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Biopsy
- Cell Division/drug effects
- Cytomegalovirus/genetics
- Cytomegalovirus/immunology
- DNA, Viral/analysis
- DNA, Viral/genetics
- Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
- HIV/genetics
- HIV/immunology
- Herpesvirus 4, Human/genetics
- Herpesvirus 4, Human/immunology
- Humans
- Immunosuppression Therapy
- Lymph Nodes/pathology
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/complications
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/immunology
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/pathology
- Male
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/complications
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/immunology
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/pathology
- Spleen/pathology
- T-Lymphocytes/drug effects
- T-Lymphocytes/pathology
- Time Factors
- Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome/complications
- Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome/immunology
- Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome/pathology
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- N J Meropol
- Hematology-Oncology Section, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104
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de Saint-Basile G, Le Deist F, Caniglia M, Lebranchu Y, Griscelli C, Fischer A. Genetic study of a new X-linked recessive immunodeficiency syndrome. J Clin Invest 1992; 89:861-6. [PMID: 1347296 PMCID: PMC442931 DOI: 10.1172/jci115665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Seven forms of X-linked (XL) immunodeficiency have been described (XL agammaglobulinemia, XL severe combined immunodeficiency [SCID], Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, XL chronic granulomatous disease, XL hyper-IgM syndrome with low IgG and IgA, and XL lymphoproliferative syndrome), and properdine deficiency. Although there are (some) phenotypic variants, diagnosis is relatively simple on the basis of clinical, immunological, and genetic characteristics. We studied a family in which several males were affected by severe infections and whose pedigree suggested recessive XL inheritance of an immunodeficiency. Immunologic and genetic studies (X inactivation patterns in females and restriction fragment length polymorphism [RFLP] segregation) were performed in order to characterize the immunodeficiency. The propositus, a 5-yr-old boy, was found to have a severe and progressive T- and B-cell functional immunodeficiency characterized by defective antigen-specific responses. No lymphocyte subsets or membrane anomalies were detected and the immunodeficiency did not correspond to usual XL forms. Studies of DNA from two of the informative females, the mother and one sister revealed nonrandom X chromosome inactivation of T cells and, partially, B cells but not PMN, a pattern similar to that observed in XL SCID carriers. RFLP studies identified a haplotype segregating with the abnormal locus that may be localized in the proximal part of the long arm of the X chromosome. We thus report the characterization of a new XL immunodeficiency that may correspond either to another XL locus or to an attenuated phenotype of XL SCID.
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- G de Saint-Basile
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), U 132, Hôpital des Enfants-Malades, Paris, France
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Greer WL, Peacocke M, Siminovitch KA. The Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome: refinement of the localization on Xp and identification of another closely linked marker locus, OATL1. Hum Genet 1992; 88:453-6. [PMID: 1346773 DOI: 10.1007/bf00215681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) has previously been mapped to the proximal short arm of the X chromosome between the DXS14 and DXS7 loci. In this study, further segregation analysis has been performed using a newly identified WAS family as well as an additional marker probe, HOATL1. The results indicate close linkage between the WAS and OATL1 loci (Z = 6.08 at theta = 0.00) and localize the TIMP, OATL1, DXS255, and WAS loci distal to DXS146 and the OATL1 and WAS loci proximal to TIMP. These linkage data narrow the boundaries within which the WAS locus maps to the chromosomal region bracketed by TIMP and DXS146 and support the loci order Xpter-DXS7-TIMP-(OATL1, WAS, DXS255)-DXS146.
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- W L Greer
- Department of Pathology, Victoria General Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- G R Standen
- Department of Haematology, Bristol Royal Infirmary
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Lorenz P, Bollmann R, Hinkel GK, Mächler M, Siegert G, Stamminger G, Wendisch J, Ziemer S. False-negative prenatal exclusion of Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome by measurement of fetal platelet count and size. Prenat Diagn 1991; 11:819-25. [PMID: 1754554 DOI: 10.1002/pd.1970111103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The study of the fetal platelet count and size can, according to the literature, be used for the prenatal diagnosis of the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS). So far, no affected fetuses have been identified by this method. All pregnancies in which this method had been applied to resulted, as correctly predicted, in the birth of normal children. Here we report on a familial case of WAS where the haematological parameters failed to reveal the affected second child. Hence we assume that the platelet count and size of platelets remain normal in fetuses with WAS to the gestational age of 22 weeks and cannot be used for prenatal diagnosis.
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- P Lorenz
- Institut of Clinical Genetics, Medical Academy Dresden, Germany
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Di Lernia V, Patrizi A, Ricci G, Masi M. Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome. Pediatr Dermatol 1991; 8:250-2. [PMID: 1745637 DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1470.1991.tb00872.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- V Di Lernia
- Department of Dermatology, University of Bologna, Italy
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De Saint-Basile G, Schlegel N, Caniglia M, Le Deist F, Kaplan C, Lecompte T, Piller F, Fischer A, Griscelli C. X-linked thrombocytopenia and Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome: similar regional assignment but distinct X-inactivation pattern in carriers. Ann Hematol 1991; 63:107-10. [PMID: 1912030 DOI: 10.1007/bf01707282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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While inherited X-linked (XL) isolated thrombocytopenia is a mild condition, the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) associates severe thrombocytopenia with an immunodeficiency component and has a poor prognosis. Whether these conditions correspond to separate genetic entities or to different mutations of the same gene(s) remains unresolved. The Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome locus has been assigned to Xp 11.2 by means of RFLP studies. The X-inactivation pattern in female carriers has been found to follow a skewed pattern in the hematopoietic cells, thus allowing carrier detection. We studied a family with four members affected by XL thrombocytopenia and report the results of genetic segregation analysis, together with the X-inactivation pattern of hematopoietic cells from an obligate female carrier. Although the affected locus mapped to the same region as that of WAS, lymphocytes presented a skewed pattern of X-inactivation, whereas polymorphonuclear lymphocytes (PMN) did not. These results provide further evidence that the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome and XL thrombocytopenia are different expressions of mutations within a single locus and that the severity of the disease corresponds to distinct hematopoietic cell selections in obligate carriers.
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- R W Hendriks
- University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Hendriks RW, De Weers M, Mensink RG, Kraakman ME, Mollee-Versteegde IF, Veerman AJ, Sandkuyl LA, Schuurman RK. Diagnosis of Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome by analysis of the X chromosome inactivation patterns in maternal leucocyte populations using the hypervariable DXS255 locus. Clin Exp Immunol 1991; 84:219-22. [PMID: 1709069 PMCID: PMC1535400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) is characterized by severe recurrent infections, petachiae and chronic eczema. The syndrome involves differentiation disorders in several haematopoietic cell lineages usually manifested as T lymphocyte deficiency, dysgammaglobulinaemia and thrombocytopenia. The defect is inherited in an X-linked recessive mode. A 1-year-old boy presented with otitis, upper respiratory infections, eczema, a persistent granulocytopenia and a dysgammaglobulinaemia. In his family five males in two generations had been shown to have WAS, which entailed a significant risk for the patient to have WAS. As the WAS gene or gene product is not delineated, the symptoms of the patient presented a diagnostic dilemma. If the boy had inherited the disease, his mother should be a WAS carrier. Segregation analysis in the family using the closely linked restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLP) DXS7, DXS255 and DXS14 did not exclude her carriership, although the probability was low. As a result of the differentiation arrest, obligate female WAS carriers manifest a unilateral X chromosome inactivation pattern in several haematopoietic cell lineages. Methylation analysis of the X chromosomal DXS255 loci exposed random X chromosome inactivation patterns in the peripheral blood granulocytes, T lymphocytes and B lymphocytes of the patient's mother. These findings excluded her WAS carriership and therefore excluded the diagnosis of WAS in the patient. This was further substantiated in a 1-year follow up with recovery from the haematological and immunological symptoms. These results demonstrated that X inactivation analysis in maternal leucocytes is decisive in the exclusion of the diagnosis of WAS.
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- R W Hendriks
- Department of Immunohaematology, University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Brooks EG, Schmalstieg FC, Wirt DP, Rosenblatt HM, Adkins LT, Lookingbill DP, Rudloff HE, Rakusan TA, Goldman AS. A novel X-linked combined immunodeficiency disease. J Clin Invest 1990; 86:1623-31. [PMID: 2243135 PMCID: PMC296912 DOI: 10.1172/jci114884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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A novel X-linked combined immunodeficiency disease was found in five living males in an extended family in the United States. The age of the affected males ranged from 2.5 to 34 yr. The most prominent clinical abnormalities were a paucity of lymphoid tissue; recurrent sinusitis, otitis media, bronchitis, and pneumonia; severe varicella; and chronic papillomavirus infections. The principal immunologic features of the disorder were normal concentrations of serum immunoglobulins but restricted formation of IgG antibodies to immunogens; normal numbers of B cells and NK cells but decreased numbers of CD4+ and CD8+ T lymphocytes, particularly the CD45RA+ subpopulations; diminished proliferative responses of blood T cells to allogeneic cells, mitogens and antigens; and decreased production of IL-2 by mitogen stimulated blood lymphocytes. Thus, affected males in this family carry an abnormal gene on their X chromosome that results in a combined immunodeficiency that is distinct from previously reported disorders.
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- E G Brooks
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston 77550
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Arveiler B, de Saint-Basile G, Fischer A, Griscelli C, Mandel JL. Germ-line mosaicism simulates genetic heterogeneity in Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome. Am J Hum Genet 1990; 46:906-11. [PMID: 1971143 PMCID: PMC1683605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (IMD2) is an X-linked recessive immunodeficiency. Initial linkage studies mapped the disease locus on the proximal short arm of the X chromosome, a localization which was further refined to the interval framed by DXS7 and DXS14. We have recently shown that a novel hypervariable locus, DXS255, is very closely linked to the disease gene and is likely to be, at present, the marker closest to the disease gene. The analysis of one family, however, displayed conflicting linkage results, as all of the informative markers situated in the Xp11-q22 region appeared to recombine with the disease locus in two "phase-known" meioses. We have shown by X-inactivation studies that the segregation of the disease through three obligate carrier females in this family originates from a grandpaternal mosaicism, which accounts for the apparent recombinations. This shows that germ-line mosaicism can simulate genetic heterogeneity in linkage studies.
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- B Arveiler
- Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire des Eucaryotes du CNRS, Unité 184 de l'INSERM, Faculté de Médecine, Strasbourg
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Lyon MF, Peters J, Glenister PH, Ball S, Wright E. The scurfy mouse mutant has previously unrecognized hematological abnormalities and resembles Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:2433-7. [PMID: 2320565 PMCID: PMC53703 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.87.7.2433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The X chromosome-linked scurfy (sf) mutant of the mouse is recognized by the scaliness of the skin from which the name is derived and results in death of affected males at about 3-4 weeks of age. Consideration of known man-mouse homologies of the X chromosome prompted hematological studies, which have shown that the blood is highly abnormal. The platelet and erythrocyte counts are both reduced and become progressively lower relative to normal as the disease progresses. There is gastrointestinal bleeding, and most animals appear to die of severe anemia. By contrast, the leukocyte count is consistently raised. Some animals showed signs of infection but it is not yet clear whether there is immunodeficiency. Other features include the scaly skin and apparently reduced lateral growth of the skin, conjunctivitis, and diarrhea in some animals. The mutant resembles Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome in man, which is characterized by thrombocytopenia, eczema, diarrhea, and immunodeficiency. The loci of the human and mouse genes lie in homologous segments of the X chromosome, although apparently in somewhat different positions relative to other gene loci. Scurfy differs from Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome in that scurfy males are consistently hypogonadal.
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- M F Lyon
- Medical Research Council Radiobiology Unit, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
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Schwartz M, Mibashan RS, Nicolaides KH, Millar DS, Jenkins E, Rodeck CH, Orstavik KH, Stormorken H. First-trimester diagnosis of Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome by DNA markers. Lancet 1989; 2:1405. [PMID: 2574357 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(89)92026-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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de Saint Basile G, Arveiler B, Fraser NJ, Boyd Y, Graig IW, Griscelli G, Fischer A. Close linkage of hypervariable marker DXS255 to disease locus of Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome. Lancet 1989; 2:1319-21. [PMID: 2574264 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(89)91920-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Linkage analyses in 5 families with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome show that a novel hypervariable locus, DXS255, is very closely linked to the disease gene on the proximal short arm of the X chromosome. DXS255, with a maximum lod score of 5.42 at theta = 0.00 (90% confidence interval 0.00, 0.10) and heterozygosity of over 90%, is likely to be the closest available marker to the Wiskott-Aldrich gene and to be helpful in genetic counselling of affected families.
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Greer WL, Mahtani MM, Kwong PC, Rubin LA, Peacocke M, Willard HF, Siminovitch KA. Linkage studies of the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome: polymorphisms at TIMP and the X chromosome centromere are informative markers for genetic prediction. Hum Genet 1989; 83:227-30. [PMID: 2571560 DOI: 10.1007/bf00285161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Eleven families segregating for the X-linked recessive immune deficiency disorder, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS), were studied by linkage analysis with an alpha satellite DNA probe, pBamX-7, which detects polymorphisms at the X chromosome centromere, locus DXZ1, as well as three other polymorphic markers defining loci on the proximal short arm of the X chromosome. Linkage has been established between WAS and DXZ1 (zeta (theta) = 7.08 at theta = 0.03) and WAS and the TIMP gene locus (zeta (theta) = 5.09 at theta = 0.0). We have also confirmed close linkage between DXZ1 and two marker loci, DXS14 and DXS7, previously shown to be linked to the WAS locus. The probe pBamX-7 detected allelic variation in all females tested, reflecting the high frequency of polymorphism at the centromere. One WAS carrier revealed a recombination between WAS and both marker loci DXZ1 and DXS14, indicating that WAS does not map between these loci. In conjunction with previous data from genetic mapping studies of WAS, these results confirm the pericentromeric Xp localization of WAS and demonstrate the usefulness of alpha satellite DNA probes as tools for genetic prediction in WAS as well as other pericentric X-linked diseases.
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- W L Greer
- Department of Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital, Ontario, Canada
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Clark RD, Fletcher J, Petersen G. Conceiving a fetus for bone marrow donation: an ethical problem in prenatal diagnosis. Prenat Diagn 1989; 9:329-34. [PMID: 2657710 DOI: 10.1002/pd.1970090505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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We present a family who sought prenatal diagnosis in order to bear a healthy child to serve as an HLA-identical bone marrow donor for their son affected with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome. They intended to abort HLA-incompatible fetuses who would have been unsuitable bone marrow donors. This case led us to conclude that prenatal diagnosis should not be used to benefit a third party or facilitate the conception or abortion of a fetus for the purpose of generating an organ for transplantation. The limits of parental autonomy and physician responsibility are discussed.
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- R D Clark
- Harbor/UCLA Medical Center, Torrance
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Lau YL, Levinsky RJ, Malcolm S, Goodship J, Winter R, Pembrey M. Genetic prediction in X-linked agammaglobulinaemia. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS 1988; 31:437-48. [PMID: 3232706 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320310224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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S21 (DXS17) and pXG12 (DXS94), two probes linked to the locus of X-linked agammaglobulinaemia (XLA), were used for genetic prediction in 13 such families. A method of allowing for nonallelic genetic heterogeneity was demonstrated in the calculation of the genetic risks, specifying a certain proportion of unlinked families. We further estimated the impact due to the uncertainty of the proportion of unlinked families on the final genetic risks in each family and this can be taken into account during genetic counselling.
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- Y L Lau
- Department of Immunology, Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom
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- Y L Lau
- Department of Immunology, Institute of Child Health, London
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- M E Conley
- Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, Philadelphia, Joseph Stokes, Jr. Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Pa. 19104
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Standen GR. Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome: new perspectives in pathogenesis and management. JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON 1988; 22:80-3. [PMID: 3294390 PMCID: PMC5379392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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- G R Standen
- University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff
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