Commentary 10.1172/JCI131647

Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria without GPI-anchor deficiency

Robert A. Brodsky

Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Address correspondence to: Robert A. Brodsky, 720 Rutland Avenue, Ross Research Building, Room 1025, Baltimore, Maryland 21205-2196, USA. Phone: 410.502.2546; Email: brodsro@jhmi.edu.

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First published October 22, 2019 - More info

Published in Volume 129, Issue 12 on December 2, 2019
J Clin Invest. 2019;129(12):5074–5076. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI131647.
© 2019 American Society for Clinical Investigation
First published October 22, 2019 - Version history

Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) is an acquired disorder characterized by hemolysis, thrombosis, and bone marrow failure caused by defective expression of glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored (GPI-anchored) complement inhibitors. Most commonly, PNH is caused by loss of function of PIGA, which is required for GPI biosynthesis. In this issue of the JCI, Höchsmann et al. report on 4 PNH patients who also had marked autoinflammatory manifestations, including aseptic meningitis. All 4 patients had a germline mutation of the related gene PIGT and a somatically acquired myeloid common deleted region (CDR) on chromosome 20q that deleted the second PIGT allele. The biochemistry and clinical manifestations indicate that these patients have subtle but important differences from those with PNH resulting from PIGA mutations, suggesting PIGT-PNH may be a distinct clinical entity.

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