ELANE Mutations in Cyclic and Severe Congenital Neutropenia
β Scribed by Horwitz, Marshall S.; Corey, Seth J.; Grimes, H. Leighton; Tidwell, Timothy
- Book ID
- 121717891
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 491 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0889-8588
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We have analysed a family with nine congenital neutropenia patients in four generations, several of which we have studied in a long-term follow-up of over 25Β years. The patients were mild to severe neutropenic and suffered from various recurrent bacterial infections. Mutations in the genes __ELANE__
## Communicated by Mauno Vihinen Heterozygous mutations of ELA2, encoding the protease neutrophil elastase (NE), cause either autosomal dominant cyclic neutropenia or severe congenital neutropenia (SCN). Three hypotheses have been proposed for how allelic mutations produce these different disorder