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Increased Radiation Sensitivity in Patients with Phelan-McDermid Syndrome

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CELLS
卷 12, 期 5, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/cells12050820

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Phelan McDermid syndrome; SHANK3 deficiency; radiation sensitivity; chromosomal aberrations; atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor

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Phelan-McDermid syndrome is a global developmental disorder often associated with autism spectrum disorder. Our study found that most patients with this syndrome have significantly increased radiosensitivity, which is not related to individual genetic findings, clinical course, or disease severity. These findings raise questions about the interpretation of the data and suggest further research is needed to explore possible links between increased radiosensitivity and aging/preaging or neurodegeneration.
Phelan-McDermid syndrome is an inherited global developmental disorder commonly associated with autism spectrum disorder. Due to a significantly increased radiosensitivity, measured before the start of radiotherapy of a rhabdoid tumor in a child with Phelan-McDermid syndrome, the question arose whether other patients with this syndrome also have increased radiosensitivity. For this purpose, the radiation sensitivity of blood lymphocytes after irradiation with 2Gray was examined using the G0 three-color fluorescence in situ hybridization assay in a cohort of 20 patients with Phelan-McDermid syndrome from blood samples. The results were compared to healthy volunteers, breast cancer patients and rectal cancer patients. Independent of age and gender, all but two patients with Phelan-McDermid syndrome showed significantly increased radiosensitivity, with an average of 0.653 breaks per metaphase. These results correlated neither with the individual genetic findings nor with the individual clinical course, nor with the respective clinical severity of the disease. In our pilot study, we saw a significantly increased radiosensitivity in lymphocytes from patients with Phelan-McDermid syndrome, so pronounced that a dose reduction would be recommended if radiotherapy had to be performed. Ultimately, the question arises as to the interpretation of these data. There does not appear to be an increased risk of tumors in these patients, since tumors are rare overall. The question, therefore, arose as to whether our results could possibly be the basis for processes, such as aging/preaging, or, in this context, neurodegeneration. There are no data on this so far, but this issue should be pursued in further fundamentally based studies in order to better understand the pathophysiology of the syndrome.

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