title: Girl with combined cellular immunodeficiency, pancytopenia, malformations, deletion 11q23.3 --> qter, and trisomy 8q24.3 --> qter.
abstract: We describe here a 3-year-old girl demonstrating combined cellular immunodeficiency of B- and T-cells, pancytopenia, multiple anomalies, and severe mental retardation. Cytogenetic analysis and fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) indicated an unbalanced translocation of chromosomes 8q and 11q, resulting in monosomy 11q23.3-qter and trisomy 8q24.3-qter. The association of cellular immunodeficiency and partial deletion 11q and/or partial trisomy 8q has not been described previously; however, the 11q deletion has been reported with humoral immunodeficiency or pancytopenia. Some one-third to one-half of patients with partial monosomy 11q were reported to have pancytopenia, which has been related to the absence of the 11q23-q24 region. Our case narrows down the critical interval for thrombo- or pancytopenia to 11q23.3-q24 and excludes both the ATM (which resides on 11q23.1) and the MLL genes as possible candidate genes. We are proposing that haploinsufficiency of the NFRKB gene on 11q24-q25 and/or the ETS-1 proto-oncogene on 11q24 may have caused or contributed to the immunodeficiency (decreased levels of B- and T-lymphocytes) in our patient.
authors.affiliation: Medical Genetic Center, Tartu University Clinics, Tartu, Estonia. katrin.ounap@mail.ee
authors.forename: Katrin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ounap
authors.forename: Oliver
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Bartsch
authors.forename: Oivi
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Uibo
authors.forename: Piret
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Laidre
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002872:Chromosome Deletion; D002880:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11 / Q000235:genetics*; D002898:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8 / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017404:In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D010198:Pancytopenia / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D000090063:Proto-Oncogene Mas; D016511:Severe Combined Immunodeficiency / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D014314:Trisomy