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BRITISH JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY
卷 172, 期 3, 页码 778-781出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/bjd.13336
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- Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) [92003541]
- Dutch Vlinderkind (Butterfly Child) Foundation
Dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB) is a heritable blistering disorder caused by mutations in the type VII collagen gene, COL7A1. Although revertant mosaicism is well known in DEB, 'forward' somatic mosaicism, in which a pathogenic mutation arises on a wild-type (WT) background, extending beyond the germ cells, has not been reported. It is therefore unknown what proportion of sporadic dominant DEB (DDEB) cases result from de novo mutations or somatic mosaic parents. In the clinically unaffected mother of a patient with DDEB pruriginosa due to the p.Gly2034Arg mutation, we identified the p.Gly2034Arg mutation in a proportion of lymphocytes and skin cells (mutational load 10-25%). Our data emphasize that forward mosaicism occurs in DDEB and highlight that mutation analysis should always be performed in the parents of sporadic DDEB patients to confirm the de novo status of the mutation. Ultimately, this will reveal the frequency of true de novo mutations and somatic mosaicism in parents, which has important implications for genetic counselling. Our data indicate that the threshold of mutant type VII procollagen to develop DDEB must be higher than 10-25%, which provides a rationale for therapeutic approaches aimed at increasing the WT : mutant type VII collagen ratio.
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