Genotype correlates with clinical course and outcome of children with tight junction protein 2 (TJP2) deficiency-related cholestasis

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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The study aimed to describe the clinical course and outcomes, and analyze the genotype-phenotype correlation in patients with tight junction protein 2 (TJP2) deficiency.

APPROACH AND RESULTS: Data from all children with chronic cholestasis and either homozygous or compound heterozygous mutations in TJP2 were extracted and analyzed. The patients were categorized into 3 genotypes: TJP2-A (missense mutations on both alleles), TJP2-B (missense mutation on one allele and a predicted protein-truncating mutation [PPTM] on the other), and TJP2-C (PPTMs on both alleles). A total of 278 cases of genetic intrahepatic cholestasis were studied, with TJP2 deficiency accounting for 44 cases (15.8%). Of these, 29 were homozygous and 15 were compound heterozygous variants of TJP2 . TJP2-A genotype was identified in 21 (47.7%), TJP2-B in 7 cases (15.9%), and TJP2-C in 16 cases (36.4%), respectively. Patients with the TJP2-C genotype were more likely to experience early infantile cholestasis (87.5% vs. 53.5%, p =0.033), less likely to clear jaundice (12.5% vs. 52.2%, p =0.037), more likely to develop ascites, and had higher serum bile acids. Patients with the TJP2-C genotype were more likely to die or require liver transplantation (native liver survival: 12.5% vs. 78.6%, p <0.001), with a median age at death/liver transplantation of 2.5 years. Cox regression analysis revealed that TJP2-C mutations ( p =0.003) and failure to resolve jaundice ( p =0.049) were independent predictors of poor outcomes.

CONCLUSIONS: Patients with the TJP2-C genotype carrying PPTMs in both alleles had a rapidly progressive course, leading to early decompensation and death if they did not receive timely liver transplantation.

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2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) - (2024) vom: 06. März

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Englisch

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Lal, Bikrant Bihari [VerfasserIn]
Alam, Seema [VerfasserIn]
Sibal, Anupam [VerfasserIn]
Kumar, Karunesh [VerfasserIn]
Hosaagrahara Ramakrishna, Somashekara [VerfasserIn]
Shah, Vaibhav [VerfasserIn]
Dheivamani, Nirmala [VerfasserIn]
Bavdekar, Ashish [VerfasserIn]
Nagral, Aabha [VerfasserIn]
Wadhwa, Nishant [VerfasserIn]
Maria, Arjun [VerfasserIn]
Shah, Aashay [VerfasserIn]
Shah, Ira [VerfasserIn]
Nalwalla, Zahabiya [VerfasserIn]
Snehavardhan, Pandey [VerfasserIn]
Srikanth, K P [VerfasserIn]
Gupta, Subhash [VerfasserIn]
Sivaramakrishnan, Viswanathan M [VerfasserIn]
Waikar, Yogesh [VerfasserIn]
Suchismita, Arya [VerfasserIn]
Ashritha, A [VerfasserIn]
Sood, Vikrant [VerfasserIn]
Khanna, Rajeev [VerfasserIn]
Indian PFIC Registry [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 10.04.2024

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10.1097/HEP.0000000000000828

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NLM369367952