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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
Volume 82, Issue 2, Pages 501-509Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2007.10.004
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- Intramural NIH HHS Funding Source: Medline
- NCI NIH HHS [N02CP11019] Funding Source: Medline
- NIAID NIH HHS [R01 AI029524, AI29524, R21 AI029524] Funding Source: Medline
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Patients with dyskeratosis congenita (DC), a heterogeneous inherited bone marrow failure syndrome, have abnormalities in telomere biology, including very short telomeres and germline mutations in DKC1, TERC, TERT, or NOP10, but similar to 60% of DC patients lack an identifiable mutation. With the very short telomere phenotype and a highly penetrant, rare disease model, a linkage scan was performed on a family with autosomal-dominant DC and no mutations in DKC1, TERC, or TERT Evidence favoring linkage was found at 2p24 and 14q11.2, and this led to the identification of TINF2 (14q11.2) mutations, K280E, in the proband and her five affected relatives and TINF2R282H in three additional unrelated DC probands, including one with Revesz syndrome; a fifth DC proband had a R282S mutation. TINF2 mutations were not present in unaffected relatives, DC probands with mutations in DKC1, TERC, or TERT or 298 control subjects. We demonstrate that a fifth gene, TINF2, is mutated in classical DC and, for the first time, in Revesz syndrome. This represents the first shelterin complex mutation linked to human disease and confirms the role of very short telomeres as a diagnostic test for DC.
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