Digenic mutations in severe congenital neutropenia.
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Germeshausen M, Zeidler C, Stuhrmann M, Lanciotti M, Ballmaier M, Welte K
Digenic mutations in severe congenital neutropenia.
Haematologica. 2010 Jul;95(7):1207-10. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2009.017665. Epub 2010 Mar 10.
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Severe congenital neutropenia a clinically and genetically heterogeneous disorder. Mutations in different genes have been described as causative for severe neutropenia, e.g. ELANE, HAX1 and G6PC3. Although congenital neutropenia is considered to be a group of monogenic disorders, the phenotypic heterogeneity even within the yet defined genetic subtypes points to additional genetic and/or epigenetic influences on the disease phenotype. We describe congenital neutropenia patients with mutations in two candidate genes each, including 6 novel mutations. Two of them had a heterozygous ELANE mutation combined with a homozygous mutation in G6PC3 or HAX1, respectively. The other 2 patients combined homozygous or compound heterozygous mutations in G6PC3 or HAX1 with a heterozygous mutation in the respective other gene. Our results suggest that digenicity may underlie this disorder of myelopoiesis at least in some congenital neutropenia patients.