X chromosome inactivation patterns in haematopoietic cells of female carriers of X‐linked severe combined immunodeficiency determined by methylation analysis at the hypervariable DXS255 locus
- 1 September 1992
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Clinical Genetics
- Vol. 42 (3), 114-121
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-0004.1992.tb03221.x
Abstract
The patterns of X chromosome inactivation were determined in 14 females from three unrelated X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (XSCID) pedigrees. All the females were found to be heterozygous for the hypervariable DXS255 locus, enabling analysis of differential methylation of this locus in peripheral blood haematopoietic cells. All six obligate carriers manifested a unilateral X chromosome inactivation in the T lymphocyte population. Differential methylation analysis of T lymphocytes was subsequently applied to establish the carrier status of females at risk in the XSCID pedigrees. In the B lymphocyte population of four XSCID carriers a unilateral X chromosome inactivation was observed. Four other carriers had minor fractions and one carrier had a substantial fraction of B lymphocytes with the XSCID gene defect on the active X chromosome. Within single XSCID pedigrees the carriers manifested different patterns. In two pedigrees the granulocyte populations of all carriers showed a random distribution of X chromosome inactivation. In the third pedigree the granulocytes of the three carriers analyzed manifested complete inactivation of the X chromosome that carried the XSCID mutation, exposing a selective disadvantage of granulocytes that express the XSCID defect. The pedigree-dependent differences in the involvement of the granulocyte population suggest the existence of two distinct XSCID defects.Keywords
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