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Comparative Study
. 2000 Dec 15;96(13):4064-70.

Association of complementation group and mutation type with clinical outcome in fanconi anemia. European Fanconi Anemia Research Group

L Faivre  1 , P Guardiola, C Lewis, I Dokal, W Ebell, A Zatterale, C Altay, J Poole, D Stones, M L Kwee, M van Weel-Sipman, C Havenga, N Morgan, J de Winter, M Digweed, A Savoia, J Pronk, T de Ravel, S Jansen, H Joenje, E Gluckman, C G Mathew
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Comparative Study

Association of complementation group and mutation type with clinical outcome in fanconi anemia. European Fanconi Anemia Research Group

L Faivre et al. Blood. .
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Abstract

Fanconi anemia (FA) is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous disorder. Clinical care is complicated by variable age at onset and severity of hematologic symptoms. Recent advances in the molecular biology of FA have allowed us to investigate the relationship between FA genotype and the nature and severity of the clinical phenotype. Two hundred forty-five patients from all 7 known complementation groups (FA-A to FA-G) were studied. Mutations were detected in one of the cloned FANC genes in 169 patients; in the remainder the complementation group was assigned by cell fusion or Western blotting. A range of qualitative and quantitative clinical parameters was compared for each complementation group and for different classes of mutation. Significant phenotypic differences were found. FA-G patients had more severe cytopenia and a higher incidence of leukemia. Somatic abnormalities were less prevalent in FA-C, but more common in the rare groups FA-D, FA-E, and FA-F. In FA-A, patients homozygous for null mutations had an earlier onset of anemia and a higher incidence of leukemia than those with mutations producing an altered protein. In FA-C, there was a later age of onset of aplastic anemia and fewer somatic abnormalities in patients with the 322delG mutation, but there were more somatic abnormalities in patients with IVS4 + 4A --> T. This study indicates that FA patients with mutations in the FANCG gene and patients homozygous for null mutations in FANCA are high-risk groups with a poor hematologic outcome and should be considered as candidates both for frequent monitoring and early therapeutic intervention. (Blood. 2000;96:4064-4070)

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