Publication date: October 2018
Source: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Volume 142, Issue 4
Author(s): Paul Tuijnenburg, Hana Lango Allen, Siobhan O. Burns, Daniel Greene, Machiel H. Jansen, Emily Staples, Jonathan Stephens, Keren J. Carss, Daniele Biasci, Helen Baxendale, Moira Thomas, Anita Chandra, Sorena Kiani-Alikhan, Hilary J. Longhurst, Suranjith L. Seneviratne, Eric Oksenhendler, Ilenia Simeoni, Godelieve J. de Bree, Anton T.J. Tool, Ester M.M. van Leeuwen
Background
The genetic cause of primary immunodeficiency disease (PID) carries prognostic information.
Objective
We conducted a whole-genome sequencing study assessing a large proportion of the NIHR BioResource–Rare Diseases cohort.
Methods
In the predominantly European study population of principally sporadic unrelated PID cases (n = 846), a novel Bayesian method identified nuclear factor κB subunit 1 (NFKB1) as one of the genes most strongly associated with PID, and the association was explained by 16 novel heterozygous truncating, missense, and gene deletion variants. This accounted for 4% of common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) cases (n = 390) in the cohort. Amino acid substitutions predicted to be pathogenic were assessed by means of analysis of structural protein data. Immunophenotyping, immunoblotting, and ex vivo stimulation of lymphocytes determined the functional effects of these variants. Detailed clinical and pedigree information was collected for genotype-phenotype cosegregation analyses.
Results
Both sporadic and familial cases demonstrated evidence of the noninfective complications of CVID, including massive lymphadenopathy (24%), unexplained splenomegaly (48%), and autoimmune disease (48%), features prior studies correlated with worse clinical prognosis. Although partial penetrance of clinical symptoms was noted in certain pedigrees, all carriers have a deficiency in B-lymphocyte differentiation. Detailed assessment of B-lymphocyte numbers, phenotype, and function identifies the presence of an increased CD21low B-cell population. Combined with identification of the disease-causing variant, this distinguishes between healthy subjects, asymptomatic carriers, and clinically affected cases.
Conclusion
We show that heterozygous loss-of-function variants in NFKB1 are the most common known monogenic cause of CVID, which results in a temporally progressive defect in the formation of immunoglobulin-producing B cells.
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