CTC1 Mutations in a patient with dyskeratosis congenita
Pediatric Blood & Cancer2012Vol. 59(2), pp. 311–314
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Rachel B. Keller, Katelyn E. Gagne, G. Naheed Usmani, George K. Asdourian, David A. Williams, Inga Hofmann, Suneet Agarwal
Abstract
Dyskeratosis congenita (DC) is a rare inherited bone marrow failure syndrome caused by mutations in seven genes involved in telomere biology, with approximately 50% of cases remaining genetically uncharacterized. We report a patient with classic DC carrying a compound heterozygous mutation in the CTC1 (conserved telomere maintenance component 1) gene, which has recently implicated in the pleiotropic syndrome Coats plus. This report confirms a molecular link between DC and Coats plus and expands the genotype-phenotype complexity observed in telomere-related genetic disorders.
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