Journal
CELLS
Volume 11, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/cells11193071
Keywords
inherited platelet disorders; storage pool deficiency; thrombocytopenia; anemia; GATA1; whole exome sequencing
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- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research [BMBF 01EO1503]
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In this study, a novel GATA1 missense variant was detected in a male patient and his daughter, causing moderate bleeding diathesis and platelet abnormalities. The dysfunction of GATA1 also had mild effects on erythrocytes. Additionally, a mild SLC4A1 defect may contribute to spherocytosis and hemolysis in the daughter.
Germline defects in the transcription factor GATA1 are known to cause dyserythropoiesis with(out) anemia and variable abnormalities in platelet count and function. However, damaging variants closely located to the C-terminal zinc finger domain of GATA1 are nearly unknown. In this study, a 36-year-old male index patient and his 4-year-old daughter suffered from moderate mucocutaneous bleeding diathesis since birth. Whole exome sequencing detected a novel hemizygous GATA1 missense variant, c.886A>C p.T296P, located between the C-terminal zinc finger and the nuclear localization sequence with non-random X-chromosome inactivation in the heterozygous daughter. Blood smears from both patients demonstrated large platelet fractions and moderate thrombocytopenia in the index. Flow cytometry and electron microscopy analysis supported a combined alpha-/delta (AN-subtype)-storage pool deficiency as cause for impaired agonist-induced platelet aggregation (light transmission aggregometry) and granule exocytosis (flow cytometry). The absence of BCAM in the index (Lu(a-b-)) and its low expression in the daughter (Lu(a-b+)) confirmed a less obvious effect of defective GATA1 also on erythrocytes. Borderline anemia, elevated HbF levels, and differential transcription of GATA1-regulated genes indicated mild dyserythropoiesis in both patients. Furthermore, a mild SLC4A1 defect associated with a heterozygous SLC4A1 c.2210C>T p.A737V variant maternally transmitted in the daughter may modify the disease to mild spherocytosis and hemolysis.
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