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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-11-3
pubmed:abstractText
Patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) who receive red blood cell (RBC) transfusions have a higher rate of anti-RBC (allo and auto) antibody development than other transfused subjects. We hypothesized that an incidence and/or kinetics of RBC-specific antibody formation in SCD patients is influenced by a linked inheritance of the hemoglobin beta S (HbbetaS) allele and a polymorphism rs660C/T in the neighboring Ro52 gene. We found that 75% of C/T heterozygous and only 30.8% of T/T homozygous patients that developed antibodies were first transfused before the age of five. In addition, there was a significant inverse correlation between time of exposure to antigen or number of transfusions received and the age when T/T patients received first transfusion, indicating progressive development of competence of their immune system. In contrast, this correlation was not observed in patients with C/T genotype. Finally, increased expression of Ro52 was associated with the presence of the T/T genotype. These results suggest that rs660 polymorphism is a marker of efficiency of tolerance induction in early childhood and immune competence development to RBC antigens in SCD patients of pre-teen/teen age.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1872-9142
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
47
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
64-70
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19201475-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:19201475-Age Factors, pubmed-meshheading:19201475-Anemia, Sickle Cell, pubmed-meshheading:19201475-Biological Markers, pubmed-meshheading:19201475-Child, pubmed-meshheading:19201475-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:19201475-Erythrocyte Transfusion, pubmed-meshheading:19201475-Erythrocytes, pubmed-meshheading:19201475-Female, pubmed-meshheading:19201475-Genotype, pubmed-meshheading:19201475-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:19201475-Immune Tolerance, pubmed-meshheading:19201475-Immunization, pubmed-meshheading:19201475-Immunocompetence, pubmed-meshheading:19201475-Isoantigens, pubmed-meshheading:19201475-Male, pubmed-meshheading:19201475-Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, pubmed-meshheading:19201475-Ribonucleoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:19201475-Young Adult
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
rs660 polymorphism in Ro52 (SSA1; TRIM21) is a marker for age-dependent tolerance induction and efficiency of alloimmunization in sickle cell disease.
pubmed:affiliation
Center for Cancer and Immunology Research, Children's Research Institute, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC 20010-2970, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article