Published in:
01-04-2018 | Original Article
Mendelian Susceptibility to Mycobacterial Disease Caused by a Novel Founder IL12B Mutation in Saudi Arabia
Authors:
Abdulrahman N. Alodayani, Abdulnasir M. Al-Otaibi, Caroline Deswarte, Husn Habib Frayha, Matthieu Bouaziz, Maryam AlHelale, Tom Le Voyer, Alejandro Nieto-Patlan, Vimel Rattina, Mofareh AlZahrani, Rabih Halwani, Fahad Al Sohime, Hamoud Al-Mousa, Saleh Al-Muhsen, Sami H. Alhajjar, Nabil S. Dhayhi, Laurent Abel, Jean-Laurent Casanova, Ibrahim Bin-Hussain, May S. AlBarrak, Suliman A. Al-Jumaah, Jacinta Bustamante
Published in:
Journal of Clinical Immunology
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Issue 3/2018
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Abstract
Purpose
Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial disease (MSMD) is a rare primary immunodeficiency predisposing congenitally affected individuals to diseases caused by weakly virulent mycobacteria, such as Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine strains and environmental mycobacteria. IL-12p40 deficiency is a genetic etiology of MSMD resulting in impaired IL-12- and IL-23-dependent IFN-γ immunity. Most of the reported patients with IL-12p40 deficiency originate from Saudi Arabia (30 of 52) and carry the recurrent IL12B mutation c.315insA (27 of 30).
Methods
Whole-exome sequencing was performed on three patients from two unrelated kindreds from Saudi Arabia with disseminated disease caused by a BCG vaccine substrain.
Results
Genetic analysis revealed a homozygous mutation, p.W60X, in exon 3 of the IL12B gene, resulting in complete IL12p40 deficiency. This mutation is recurrent due to a new founder effect.
Conclusions
This report provides evidence for a second founder effect for recurrent mutations of IL12B in Saudi Arabia.