Familial immune‐mediated aplastic anaemia in six different families
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Abstract
We studied the pathophysiology of aplastic anaemia (AA) in six different pairs of relatives without a family history of hematologic disorders or congenital AA. Five and four of the six pairs shared the HLA-DRB1*15:01 and B*40:02 alleles, respectively. Glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored protein-deficient blood cells were detected in eight of the 10 patients evaluated. In a mother-daughter pair from one family, flow cytometry detected leukocytes lacking HLA-A2 due to loss of heterogeneity in chromosome 6p. Whole-exome sequencing of the family pair revealed a missense mutation in MYSM1. These results suggest that genetic inheritance of immune traits might underlie familial AA in some patients.Keywords
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