Birth defects in HIV vertically exposed children

Tudor, Ana Maria; Mărdărescu, Mariana; Anca, Ioana; Petre, Cristina; Cristea, C; Neagu-Drăghicenoiu, Ruxandra; Ungurianu, Rodica

doi:10.1186/1471-2334-14-s4-o7

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“…We searched the scientific literature (in English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and French), but could not find other accounts of IEI patients born from HIV-positive parents. There is, however, one abstract from Romania 2014 [11], where a prevalence of 2% was found for rare genetic defects among 203 HIV vertically exposed children. The frequencies of these rare congenital diseases among the general population are <1 in 10 000.…”

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Activating de novo monoallelic variants causing inborn errors of immunity in two unrelated children born of HIV-seroconcordant couples

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Mendoza³

et al. 2022

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Introduction: Around 20% of all inborn errors of immunity (IEI) are autosomal dominant or monoallelic, either by haploinsufficiency, negative dominance, or gain of function (GOF). GOF phenotypes usually include autoinflammation, autoimmunity, lymphoproliferation, allergies, and some infections. Case series: We describe the cases of two unrelated patients born of HIV-seroconcordant parents. Both patients are HIV-negative but carry de novo GOF missense variants that resulted in inflammatory lymphoproliferative IEI diseases: signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3)-GOF and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, catalytic delta (PIK3CD)-GOF. Both variants were found through whole-exome sequencing and confirmed by Sanger. An 11-year-old male with recurrent sinopulmonary infections, dysmorphism, growth delay, bronchiectasis, and mild mental retardation, as well as lymphopenia, thrombocytopenia, and high immunoglobulin M. Both his parents were known to be HIV-positive under anti-retroviral treatment. HIV infection was repeatedly ruled out in the patient, whom through whole-exome sequencing was found to have a heterozygous missense variant in exon 24 of PIK3CD, a hotspot transition, and the most reported variant in PIK3CD-GOF patients. A 6-year-old male with autoimmune hemolytic anemia, lymphoproliferation, short stature, and intractable diarrhea. Both his parents were found to be HIV-positive. HIV was repeatedly ruled out in the patient by ELISA and viral load. He was found to have a heterozygous missense/splice variant in exon 22 of STAT3, a hotspot transition, and the most reported variant in STAT3-GOF patients. Discussion: The AID/APOBEC3 A-H family of proteins are cytidine deaminases that induce G>A hypermutation in both the invading viral DNA and the host genome, which results in stop codons inside the endogenized retroviral sequence. Both variants found in our patients are G to A transitions. Retroviral infection might thus have resulted in host genome instability, and our patients’ rare congenital diseases are the unfortunate consequence of somatic hypermutation in one of their parents’ gametes.

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