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Haploinsufficiency of t e lomerase reverse transcriptase leads to anticipation in autosomal dominant dyskeratosis congenita
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Dyskeratosis congenita is a rare inherited disorder characterized by abnormal skin manifestations. Morbidity and mortality from this disease is usually due to bone marrow failure, but idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and an increased cancer predisposition also occur. Families with autosomal dominant dyskeratosis congenita display anticipation and have mutations in the telomerase RNA gene. We identified a three-generation pedigree with autosomal dominant dyskeratosis congenita, anticipation, and telomere shortening. We show that a null mutation in motif D of the reverse transcriptase domain of the protein component of telomerase, hTERT, is associated with this phenotype. This mutation leads to haploinsufficiency of telomerase, and telomere shortening occurs despite the presence of telomerase. This finding emphasizes the importance of telomere maintenance and telomerase dosage for maintaining tissue proliferative capacity and has relevance for understanding mechanisms of age-related changes.
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“They manifest in an autosomal-dominant inheritance pattern because complete or partial loss-of-function of one allele is sufficient to perturb telomere maintenance38,39,41.”
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“The most compelling evidence for the causal role of telomere shortening as a primary modifier of disease is that families with mutant telomerase genes display genetic anticipation39,83.”
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“Eight mutant genes have been identified in dyskeratosis congenita9,38,39,60–64, and all of them encode telomerase or telomere protein components (summarized in Table 1).”
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“Indeed, the co-occurrence of IPF and bone marrow failure, along with liver cirrhosis, is specific to and highly predictive of a germline telomere maintenance defect13,39,71.”
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“However, affected individuals often have subclinical disease concurrently in other organs, even when symptoms related to a single disorder predominate13,39.”
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“Among the genes we evaluated was TERT, which was considered a candidate because a mutation in this gene was recently reported to cause autosomal dominant dyskeratosis congenita (DKC), a disorder in which 20% of affected individuals develop pulmonary fibrosis (6, 7).”
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“Telomere length is influenced by many different factors, including age (13, 14) and the number of generations the mutation is transmitted (6, 15).”
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“The individuals with TERT or TERC mutations have none of the physical manifestations of DKC and were all ascertained by the lung fibrosis phenotype, distinguishing them from previously described patients with mutations in these genes (6, 9, 10, 17).”
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- Authors
- Armanios, M., Chen, J.-L., Chang, Y.-P. C., Brodsky, R. A., Hawkins, A., Griffin, C. A., Eshleman, J. R., Cohen, A. R., Chakravarti, A., Hamosh, A., & Greider, C. W.
- Affiliations
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2005-10-24
- Volume
- 102
- Issue
- 44
- Pages
- 15960-15964
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC1276104
- OpenAlex
- W1985641439
- Cited by
- 452
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- FWCI
- 15.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
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- Funders
- American Association for Cancer Research
- Amgen
- National Cancer Institute (P01CA016519)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Hematology › Blood disorders and treatments
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Dermatology › Genetic and rare skin diseases.
- Keywords
- dyskeratosis congenita, telomerase reverse transcriptase, hTERT, haploinsufficiency, anticipation, autosomal dominant inheritance, telomere shortening, telomerase RNA, null mutations, telomere maintenance, bone marrow failure, cancer susceptibility, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, pedigree analysis
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Child, Child, Preschool, DNA-Binding Proteins, Family Health, Female, Genes, Dominant, Haplotypes, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Mutation, Pedigree, Phenotype, Telomere, Gene Dosage, Telomerase, Dyskeratosis Congenita, Anticipation, Genetic, Cell Proliferation
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