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Genotype and functional correlates of disease phenotype in deficiency of adenosine deaminase 2 (DADA2)
BACKGROUND
Deficiency of adenosine deaminase 2 (DADA2) is a syndrome with pleiotropic manifestations including vasculitis and hematologic compromise. A systematic definition of the relationship between ADA2 mutations and clinical phenotype remains unavailable.
OBJECTIVE
We tested whether the impact of ADA2 mutations on enzyme function correlates with clinical presentation.
METHODS
DADA2 patients with severe hematologic manifestations were compared with vasculitis-predominant patients. Enzymatic activity was assessed using expression constructs reflecting all 53 missense, nonsense, insertion and deletion genotypes from 152 patients across the DADA2 spectrum.
RESULTS
We identified DADA2 patients presenting with pure red cell aplasia (PRCA, n = 5) or bone marrow failure syndrome (BMF, n = 10). Most patients did not exhibit features of vasculitis. Recurrent infection, hepatosplenomegaly and gingivitis were common in patients with BMF, of whom half died from infection. Unlike DADA2 patients with vasculitis, patients with PRCA and BMF proved largely refractory to tumor necrosis factor inhibitors. ADA2 variants associated with vasculitis predominantly reflected missense mutations with at least 3% residual enzymatic activity. By contrast, PRCA and BMF were associated with missense mutations with minimal residual enzyme activity, nonsense variants, and insertions / deletions resulting in complete loss of function.
CONCLUSION
Functional interrogation of ADA2 mutations reveals an association of subtotal function loss with vasculitis, typically responsive to TNF blockade, whereas more extensive loss is observed in hematologic disease which may be refractory to treatment. These findings establish a genotype-phenotype spectrum in DADA2
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