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. 2013 Nov;132(5):1156-1163.e5.
doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2013.05.039. Epub 2013 Jul 31.

Clinical, functional, and genetic characterization of chronic granulomatous disease in 89 Turkish patients

Mustafa Yavuz Köker  1 , Yıldız Camcıoğlu, Karin van Leeuwen, Sara Şebnem Kılıç, Işıl Barlan, Mustafa Yılmaz, Ayşe Metin, Martin de Boer, Hüseyin Avcılar, Türkan Patıroğlu, Alişan Yıldıran, Olcay Yeğin, Ilhan Tezcan, Özden Sanal, Dirk Roos
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Clinical, functional, and genetic characterization of chronic granulomatous disease in 89 Turkish patients

Mustafa Yavuz Köker et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2013 Nov.

Abstract

Background: Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is a rare primary immunodeficiency disorder of phagocytes resulting in impaired killing of bacteria and fungi. A mutation in one of the 4 genes encoding the components p22(phox), p47(phox), p67(phox), and p40(phox) of the leukocyte nicotinamide dinucleotide phosphate reduced (NADPH) oxidase leads to autosomal recessive (AR) CGD. A mutation in the CYBB gene encoding gp91(phox) leads to X-linked recessive CGD.

Objective: The aim of this study is to show the correlation between clinical, functional, and genetic data of patients with CGD from Turkey.

Methods: We report here the results of 89 patients with CGD from 73 Turkish families in a multicenter study.

Results: Most of the families (55%) have an AR genotype, and 38% have an X-linked genotype; patients from 5 families with a suspected AR genotype (7%) were not fully characterized. We compared patients with CGD according to the severity of NADPH oxidase deficiency of neutrophils. Patients with A22(0), A67(0) or X91(0) phenotypes with a stimulation index of 1.5 or less have early clinical presentation and younger age at diagnosis (mean, 3.2 years). However, in p47(phox)-deficient cases and in 5 other AR cases with high residual oxidase activity (stimulation index ≥ 3), later and less severe clinical presentation and older age at diagnosis (mean, 7.1 years) were found. Pulmonary involvement was the most common clinical feature, followed by lymphadenitis and abscesses.

Conclusion: Later and less severe clinical presentation and older age at diagnosis are related to the residual NADPH oxidase activity of neutrophils and not to the mode of inheritance. CGD caused by A22(0) and A67(0) subtypes manifests as severe as the X91(0) subtype.

Keywords: A22 CGD with residual oxidase activity; A22(R); AR; Autosomal recessive; CGD; CYBA; CYBB; Chronic granulomatous disease; DHR; Dihydrorhodamine-1,2,3; MFI; Mean fluorescence intensity; NADPH; NBT; NCF1; NCF2; Nicotinamide dinucleotide phosphate reduced; Nitroblue tetrazolium; PMA; Phagocyte oxidase; Phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate; ROI; Reactive oxygen intermediate; SI; Stimulation index; X-CGD; X-linked recessive chronic granulomatous disease; dihydrorhodamine-1,2,3 assay; mean fluorescence intensity; nicotinamide dinucleotide phosphate reduced oxidase; phox; stimulation index.

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