2006
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2005-09-3702
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Lack of F8 mRNA: a novel mechanism leading to hemophilia A

Abstract: Hemophilia A (HA) is caused by partial or total deficiency of F8 protein activity. In a small group, about 1.8% of patients with HA, no mutation is found in the F8 gene. Among this group, we report here on one patient with severe HA in whom no mRNA of the F8 gene was detected. Using 2 common polymorphisms in F8 exon 14, we were able to show that the same allele shared by the patient, his mother, and his sister was not detected by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) from total blood mRNA. S… Show more

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“…This has been reported by several workers earlier, wherein mutations have not been detected in 2–10% of the HA cases, even after directly sequencing the coding, splice site and the promoter region of F8 [30], [31]. Deep intronic mutations, epigenetic factors are some of the possible explanations which need further evaluation.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 50%
“…This has been reported by several workers earlier, wherein mutations have not been detected in 2–10% of the HA cases, even after directly sequencing the coding, splice site and the promoter region of F8 [30], [31]. Deep intronic mutations, epigenetic factors are some of the possible explanations which need further evaluation.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 50%
“…Therefore there is no assurance that the effect of the variations found here will be the same in FVIII expressing/secreting cells. Nevertheless, the importance of screening for splicing variations has been underlined in HA and our work highlights the importance of implementation of F8 mRNA analysis in clinical practice.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 86%
“…This rearrangement leads to the second event wherein an intra‐chromosomal homologous recombination occurs between F8 :Int1R‐1 and Int1R‐2d in the duplicated IKBKG gene. As a result, F8 is split in intron 1 into two oppositely oriented fragments for which no functional mRNA is transcribed [8]. On the other hand, the essential IKBKG gene is still intact and transcribed, as the homologous recombination involves the duplicated copy and not the endogenous IKBKG or IKBKGP .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The index patient is a male hemophilia A patient with a severe phenotype (< 1 IU dL −1 factor [F]VIII activity) who suffers from no other known health problems as previously reported [8]. No inhibitors have been detected.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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