A complex genomic abnormality found in a patient with antithrombin deficiency and autoimmune disease-like symptoms

Int J Hematol. 2014 Aug;100(2):200-5. doi: 10.1007/s12185-014-1596-9. Epub 2014 Jun 3.

Abstract

Hereditary antithrombin (AT) deficiency is an autosomal dominant thrombophilic disorder caused by SERPINC1 abnormality. In the present study, we analyzed SERPINC1 in a Japanese patient with AT deficiency and autoimmune disease-like symptoms. Direct sequencing and multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification revealed that the patient was hemizygous for the entire SERPINC1 deletion. Single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping, gene dose measurement, and long-range polymerase chain reaction (PCR) followed by mapping PCR and direct sequencing of the long-range PCR products revealed that the patient had an approximately 111-kb gene deletion from exon 2 of ZBTB37 to intron 5 of RC3H1, including the entire SERPINC1 in chromosome 1. We also found a 7-bp insertion of an unknown origin in the breakpoint, which may be a combination of three parts with a few base-pair microhomologies, resulting from a replication-based process known as 'fork stalling and template switching'. Because RC3H1, which encodes the protein roquin is involved in the repression of self-immune responses, the autoimmune disease-like symptoms of the patient may have resulted from this gene defect. In conclusion, we identified an entire SERPINC1 deletion together with a large deletion of RC3H1 in an AT-deficient patient with autoimmune disease-like symptoms.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Antithrombin III / genetics*
  • Antithrombin III Deficiency / complications
  • Antithrombin III Deficiency / genetics*
  • Antithrombin III Deficiency / pathology
  • Autoimmune Diseases / complications
  • Autoimmune Diseases / genetics*
  • Autoimmune Diseases / pathology
  • Base Sequence*
  • Exons
  • Female
  • Gene Dosage
  • Hemizygote
  • Humans
  • Introns
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • RNA-Binding Proteins / genetics*
  • Sequence Deletion*
  • Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases / genetics*

Substances

  • RC3H1 protein, human
  • RNA-Binding Proteins
  • SERPINC1 protein, human
  • Antithrombin III
  • Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases