Clinical and genetic analysis of four patients with congenital neutropenia

OBJECTIVE: To delineate the clinical feature and genetic basis of four patients with congenital neutropenia.

METHODS: All patients were subjected to whole exome sequencing (WES). Suspected variants were verified by Sanger sequencing.

RESULTS: The patients (two boys and two girls), aged 7 to 15 months, suffered from neutropenia and recurrent infections. Bone marrow smears showed a significant decrease in the proportion of rod-shaped and lobulated granulocytes, which suggested impaired development and maturation of bone marrow neutrophils. WES has discovered heterozygous variants (c.496G>A, c.58C>G, c.391G>A and IVS1+5T>A) of the ELANE gene in the patients. Among these, c.58C>G and IVS1+5T>A were unreported previously. Follow up revealed patients 1 and 3 had periodic neutropenia, while patients 2 and 4 had severe congenital neutropenia. After attaining the definite diagnosis, the patients were treated symptomatically.

CONCLUSION: The main clinical feature of congenital neutropenia is refractory recurrent bacterial infections, for which mutations of the ELANE gene are a common cause. Two novel pathogenic ELANE variants have been discovered in this study.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:37

Enthalten in:

Zhonghua yi xue yi chuan xue za zhi = Zhonghua yixue yichuanxue zazhi = Chinese journal of medical genetics - 37(2020), 11 vom: 10. Nov., Seite 1222-1225

Sprache:

Chinesisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhu, Hao [VerfasserIn]
Liao, Qing [VerfasserIn]
Gong, Yuhong [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Biao [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Chao [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Hongling [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

EC 3.4.21.37
ELANE protein, human
Journal Article
Leukocyte Elastase

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Date Completed 19.11.2020

Date Revised 19.11.2020

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3760/cma.j.cn511374-20190825-00430

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM317468014