A clinical report of Chediak-Higashi syndrome in infancy with a novel genotype from the Indian subcontinent.
Chediak-Higashi syndrome (CHS; OMIM no. 214500) is an inherited multisystem disorder presenting with hypopigmentation and a propensity to infections due to immunological dysfunction. CHS generally presents in infancy with a fatal outcome, but less severe cases can present in adulthood. Treatment with bone marrow transplantation can be life-saving, so establishing a correct diagnosis is critical. The presence of large granules on examination of peripheral blood smears is suggestive of the diagnosis of CHS in most centers. However, sequencing of the lysosomal trafficking, LYST, gene confirms the diagnosis and can provide a prognosis regarding disease severity. In the case presented here, we performed molecular testing to identify the causative mutation and tabulated published mutation data from 2009 to 2014. We found a novel frameshift mutation in our case and concluded that frameshift and nonsense are the most common types of mutation in CHS, but this may be biased due to underdiagnosis of the milder and atypical forms of the disease.
Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
Ankur
A
Singh
National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Melanie M
MM
Bryan
National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Joseph C
JC
Roney
National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Andrew R
AR
Cullinane
National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
William A
WA
Gahl
Department of Pathology, MAMC Associated Lok Nayak Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Nita
N
Khurana
Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, MAMC Associated Lok Nayak Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Seema
S
Kapoor
D002609:Chediak-Higashi Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D016368:Frameshift Mutation; D006720:Homozygote; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007223:Infant; D033921:Vesicular Transport Proteins / Q000235:genetics*
C102161:LYST protein, human; D033921:Vesicular Transport Proteins