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Case#: Case 1, male, Brazilian
DiseaseAssertion: APDS1
FamilyInfo: We identified a kinship that included 3 half-siblings with symptoms typical for APDS1. The patient's father (I.4), a truck driver, reported that in addition to the index case, he had 4 additional children with 3 other women living in different Brazilian cities along his truck route and that 2 of these children (II.4 and II.5) had symptoms similar to the index case (Fig 1A). Of his 5 children, 1 had died at 3 years of age (II.1) with clinical symptoms similar to the index case, including hepatosplenomegaly, fever, and recurrent infections; immunologic studies were not performed. The other symptomatic half-brother (II.5) was evaluated at 5 years of age with a history of 5 episodes of pneumonia, recurrent oral candidiasis, several upper respiratory infections, and hepatosplenomegaly. The pedigree suggested that the father (I.4) carried the same autosomal-dominant PIK3CD mutation that affected 3 sons born to different mothers. However, neither he nor the mothers of the affected boys had any symptoms suggestive of APDS. Sanger sequencing demonstrated that neither the father nor the mothers of the affected boys carried the identified PIK3CD mutation in blood. This raised the possibility of germline or gonadal mosaicism in the father. To test this hypothesis, genomic DNA was extracted from his semen. As illustrated in Figure 1F, semen-derived DNA carried the heterozygous p.E1021K mutation identified in the affected sons. Based on relative peak heights, we estimated that 20% to 25% of the semen carried the mutation.
CaseHPOFreeText: The index case (II.4 in Fig 1A) had 10 episodes of pneumonia, 2 episodes of sepsis, several upper respiratory infections, and oral moniliasis within the first year of life. He subsequently developed hepatosplenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, and an axillary abscess owing to Candida albicans. At 3 years of age, laboratory investigation showed increased immunoglobulin (Ig) M (368 mg/dL) and IgG (1,450 mg/dL) levels, normal IgA level (107 mg/dL), low CD4 (330/mm3) and increased CD8 (1,229/mm3) counts, and low CD19 B cells (17/mm3). IgG subclasses showed normal absolute levels of IgG1 (1,020 mg/dL), IgG2 (79.0 mg/dL), IgG3 (78.3 mg/dL), and IgG4 (28.1 mg/dL); however, their ratio showed a proportional decrease of IgG2.
GenotypingMethod: Sanger sequencing. Unclear if entire PIK3CD gene was sequenced across intron/exon boundaries.
Variant: a heterozygous PIK3CD hotspot mutation (c.3061G→A, p.E1021K) was identified by Sanger sequencing.
CAID: CA145460
gnomAD: absent from gnomAD v2.1.1