Constitutional SAMD9L Mutations Cause Familial Myelodysplastic Syndrome and Transient Monosomy 7
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Constitutional SAMD9L mutations cause familial myelodysplastic syndrome and transient monosomy 7 The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters Citation Pastor, V. B., S. S. Sahoo, J. Boklan, G. C. Schwabe, E. Saribeyoglu, B. Strahm, D. Lebrecht, et al. 2018. “Constitutional SAMD9L mutations cause familial myelodysplastic syndrome and transient monosomy 7.” Haematologica 103 (3): 427-437. doi:10.3324/haematol.2017.180778. http://dx.doi.org/10.3324/ haematol.2017.180778. Published Version doi:10.3324/haematol.2017.180778 Citable link http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:35982102 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository, and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material, as set forth at http:// nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of- use#LAA Myelodysplastic Syndromes ARTICLE Constitutional SAMD9L mutations cause familial myelodysplastic syndrome and transient Ferrata Storti monosomy 7 Foundation Victor B. Pastor,1,2* Sushree S. Sahoo,1,2,3* Jessica Boklan,4 Georg C. Schwabe,5 Ebru Saribeyoglu,5 Brigitte Strahm,1 Dirk Lebrecht,1 Matthias Voss,6 Yenan T. Bryceson,6 Miriam Erlacher,1,7 Gerhard Ehninger,8 Marena Niewisch,1 Brigitte Schlegelberger,9 Irith Baumann,10 John C. Achermann,11 Akiko Shimamura,12 Jochen Hochrein,13 Ulf Tedgård,14 Lars Nilsson,15 Henrik Hasle,16 Melanie Boerries,7,13 Hauke Busch,13,17 Charlotte M. Niemeyer1,7 Haematologica 2018 and Marcin W. Wlodarski1,7 Volume 103(3):427-437 1Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany; 2Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Germany; 3Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany; 4Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, Phoenix Children's Hospital, AZ, USA; 5Children’s Hospital, Carl-Thiem-Klinikum Cottbus, Germany; 6Department of Medicine, Huddinge, Hematology and Regenerative Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; 7German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Freiburg, Germany and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany; 8Internal Medicine of Hematology/Medical Oncology, University Hospital, Dresden, Germany; 9Institute of Human Genetics, Hannover Medical School, Germany; 10Clinical Centre South West, Department of Pathology, Böblingen Clinics, Germany; 11Genetics & Genomic Medicine, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, UK; 12Boston Children's Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and Harvard Medical School, MA, USA; 13Institute of Molecular Medicine and Cell Research, University of Freiburg, Germany; 14Department of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden; 15Department of Hematology, Oncology and Radiation Physics, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden; 16Department of Pediatrics, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark and 17Lübeck Institute of Experimental Dermatology, Germany *VBP and SS contributed equally to this manuscript. Correspondence: ABSTRACT [email protected] amilial myelodysplastic syndromes arise from haploinsufficiency of genes involved in hematopoiesis and are primarily associated with early-onset disease. Here we describe a familial syndrome in Received: September 12, 2017. F Accepted: December 5, 2017. seven patients from four unrelated pedigrees presenting with myelodysplastic syndrome and loss of chromosome 7/7q. Their medi- Pre-published: December 7, 2017. an age at diagnosis was 2.1 years (range, 1-42). All patients presented with thrombocytopenia with or without additional cytopenias and a hypocellular marrow without an increase of blasts. Genomic studies doi:10.3324/haematol.2017.180778 identified constitutional mutations (p.H880Q, p.R986H, p.R986C and Check the online version for the most updated p.V1512M) in the SAMD9L gene on 7q21, with decreased allele fre- information on this article, online supplements, quency in hematopoiesis. The non-random loss of mutated SAMD9L and information on authorship & disclosures: alleles was attained via monosomy 7, deletion 7q, UPD7q, or acquired www.haematologica.org/content/103/3/427 truncating SAMD9L variants p.R1188X and p.S1317RfsX21. Incomplete penetrance was noted in 30% (3/10) of mutation carriers. ©2018 Ferrata Storti Foundation Long-term observation revealed divergent outcomes with either pro- Material published in Haematologica is covered by copyright. gression to leukemia and/or accumulation of driver mutations (n=2), All rights are reserved to the Ferrata Storti Foundation. Use of persistent monosomy 7 (n=4), and transient monosomy 7 followed by published material is allowed under the following terms and conditions: spontaneous recovery with SAMD9L-wildtype UPD7q (n=2). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode. Dysmorphic features or neurological symptoms were absent in our Copies of published material are allowed for personal or inter- nal use. Sharing published material for non-commercial pur- patients, pointing to the notion that myelodysplasia with monosomy poses is subject to the following conditions: 7 can be a sole manifestation of SAMD9L disease. Collectively, our https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode, results define a new subtype of familial myelodysplastic syndrome and sect. 3. Reproducing and sharing published material for com- mercial purposes is not allowed without permission in writing provide an explanation for the phenomenon of transient monosomy 7. from the publisher. Registered at: www.clinicaltrials.gov; #NCT00047268. haematologica | 2018; 103(3) 427 V.B. Pastor et al. Introduction the mutant allele. We further demonstrate in two cases that SAMD9L–related disease can be associated with tran- Germline predisposition has been recognized as an sient -7, occurring as a one-time clonal event followed by underlying cause for the development of myelodysplastic somatic correction of hematopoiesis achieved by UPD7q syndromes (MDS) in children. Recently, it has also been with double wild-type SAMD9L. gaining importance in the etiology of adult myeloid neo- plasia, particularly in cases with a positive family history. Various genes are known to be associated with heritable Methods forms of MDS and acute myeloid leukemia,1,2 e.g., GATA2,3 CEBPA,4 RUNX1,5 ANKRD26,6 ETV67 and Patients DDX41,8 in addition to inherited bone marrow failure syn- The diagnosis of MDS was established according to World dromes. Germline mutations in DDX41 can result in Health Organization criteria.24,25 Patients 1 (P1), 2 (P2), 5 (P5), and 7 adult-onset myeloid neoplasia, while aberrations in (P7) were enrolled in prospective study 98 of the European RUNX1 and GATA2 are associated with myeloid neoplasia Working Group of MDS in Childhood (EWOG-MDS) (www.clin- in younger individuals. We recently reported that GATA2 icaltrials.gov; #NCT00047268). Patient 6 (P6) was the father of P5 deficiency is the most common genetic cause of primary (family III). Family II (P3 and P4) was referred for evaluation of childhood MDS, accounting for 15% of all cases of familial MDS from Phoenix Children s Hospital, USA. The study advanced MDS, and 37% of MDS with monosomy 7 had been approved by an institutional´ ethics committee (MDS/-7).9 However, in the majority of cases of pediatric (University of Freiburg, CPMP/ICH/135/95 and 430/16). Written MDS, and also in a considerable number of cases of famil- informed consent to participation had been obtained from ial myeloid neoplasia, the presumed germline cause has patients and parents. not yet been discovered.10,11 Monosomy 7 is the most frequent cytogenetic lesion in Genomic studies and bioinformatics children with MDS and, unlike in adults, it often occurs as Exploratory whole exome sequencing was performed in bone the sole cytogenetic abnormality.12 Due to the rapid and marrow granulocytes in P1 and P2, as outlined in the Online progressive course of the disease, it is considered an Supplementary Material. Targeted deep sequencing for urgent indication for hematopoietic stem cell transplanta- SAMD9/SAMD9L and genes related to MDS/inherited bone mar- tion.13 However, transient monosomy 7 has occasionally row failure syndromes was performed in other patients, except for been documented in childhood MDS.14-16 Considering that P3 and P6 due to unavailability of material. All relevant variants complete (-7) and partial [del(7q)] deletion of chromosome were validated using Sanger sequencing. For germline confirma- 7 are common aberrations in MDS, extensive efforts have tion, DNA was extracted from skin fibroblasts and/or hair follicles, been undertaken to discern causative tumor suppressor and targets were amplified and sequenced as previously genes located on chromosome 7. Asou and colleagues described.9 The degree of deleteriousness was calculated using the identified SAMD9 (Sterile Alpha Motif Domain-contain- combined annotation-dependent depletion scoring system ing 9), its paralogue SAMD9L (SAMD9-like), and (CADD-score).26 The variants with CADD-scores higher than 20 Miki/HEPACAM2 as commonly deleted genes within a were further evaluated for their role in hematologic disease or can- 7q21 cluster in patients with myeloid neoplasia.17 Notably cer, thereby focusing on the top 1% most deleterious variants in Samd9l-haploinsufficient mice were shown to develop the human genome. In addition, pathogenicity