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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmg.2022.104635 | DOI Listing |
Int J Cancer
January 2025
Department of Hematology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
An aggressive subtype of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is caused by enhancer hijacking resulting in MECOM overexpression. Several chromosomal rearrangements can lead to this: the most common (inv(3)/t(3;3)) results in a hijacked GATA2 enhancer, and there are several atypical MECOM rearrangements involving enhancers from other hematopoietic genes. The set of enhancers which can be hijacked by MECOM can also be hijacked by BCL11B.
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December 2024
Laboratory for Transcriptional Regulation, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS), Yokohama, Japan.
Genetic studies in mice have shown that the zinc finger transcription factor BCL11B has an essential role in regulating early T cell development and neurogenesis. A de novo heterozygous missense BCL11B variant, BCL11B, was isolated from a patient with T cell deficiency and neurological disorders. Here, we show that mice harboring the corresponding Bcl11b mutation show the emergence of natural killer (NK)/group 1 innate lymphoid cell (ILC1)-like NKp46 cells in the thymus and reduction in TBR1 neurons in the neocortex, which are observed with loss of Bcl11a but not Bcl11b.
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March 2024
Laboratory for Transcriptional Regulation, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS), Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan.
BCL11B is a transcription factor with six CH-type zinc-finger domains. Studies in mice have shown that Bcl11b plays essential roles in T cell development. Several germline heterozygous BCL11B variants have been identified in human patients with inborn errors of immunity (IEI) patients.
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August 2023
Department of Medical Genetics, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India.
Heterozygous disease-causing variants in BCL11B are the basis of a rare neurodevelopmental syndrome with craniofacial and immunological involvement. Isolated craniosynostosis, without systemic or immunological findings, has been reported in one of the 17 individuals reported with this disorder till date. We report three additional individuals harboring de novo heterozygous frameshift variants, all lying in the exon 4 of BCL11B.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM) and Immunity (IEI) are Mendelian diseases in which complex phenotypes and patient rarity can limit clinical annotations. Few genes are assigned to both IEM and IEI, but immunometabolic demands suggest functional overlap is underestimated. We applied CRISPR screens to test IEM genes for immunologic roles and IEI genes for metabolic effects and found considerable crossover.
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