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Two Cases of Syndromic Neutropenia with a Report of Novel Mutation in G6PC3

Abstract

Severe congenital neutropenia (SCN) is a rare primary immunodeficiency. Different genes are found to be associated with SCN, including ELA2, HAX1, WAS, GFI1, G-CSFR. Also, recently G6PC3 as a rare gene in SCN has been reported.
Patients with G6PC3 often have cardiac and/or urogenital malformations. Two patients with   persistent   severe   neutropenia,   recurrent   infections   and   maturation   arrest   at promyelocyte-myelocyte stage in their bone marrow were assessed in this study.
Both patients showed structural heart disease and one of them also showed urogenital anomaly. Sequence analyses of G6PC3 in 2 patients revealed two different homozygous mutations, one in exon 6 (Asn 313 fs), and the other in exon 3 (Ser 139 Met), the latter is a new mutation which has not been reported in previous studies.
It  can be concluded that  G6PC3  is one of the responsible gene for SCN in Iranian patients. Based on the results, a new mutation in G6PC3 observed in one patient.

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Cardiorascular & urogenital malformations G6PC3 Severe Congenital Neutropenia
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Alizadeh Z, Fazlollahi MR, Eshghi P, Hamidieh AA, Pourpak Z, Ghadami M. Two Cases of Syndromic Neutropenia with a Report of Novel Mutation in G6PC3. Iran J Allergy Asthma Immunol. 1;10(3):227-230.