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Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unit 474;
Département d’Information Hospitalière;
Service d’Immunologie Clinique, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France;
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Center for Biotechnology, Karokinska Institute, Huddinge, Sweden;
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Department of Clinical Immunology, Royal Free Hospital, Hampsted, London, United Kingdom;
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Department of Immunology, Oxford Radcliffe Hospital, John Radcliffe Site, Oxford, United Kingdom; and
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Service d’hématologie;
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Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unit 429, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France
Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is an heterogeneous syndrome characterized by decreased levels of serum Ig and recurrent bacterial infection. Here, we were interested to study whether a qualitative defect of the affinity Ab maturation process could be combined to the low level of serum Ig in a cohort of 38 CVID patients. For this, we designed a novel and rapid screening test for the detection of hypomutated V gene expressed by memory B cells. This test delineated a subset of 9/38 (23%) CVID patients with an abnormal pattern of Ig V gene mutation. The mean frequency of V gene mutation of this subset was significantly lower (1.74%) compared with other CVID patients (5.46%) and normal donors (6.5%) (p < 0.0001). The mean age of this subgroup was significantly higher than other hypogammaglobulinemic patients with normal levels of V gene mutation (p < 0.02), whereas no difference in the duration of symptoms was noted between the two groups. This suggests that hypomutation characterizes patients who began CVID late in life. Recently, it was shown that non-Ig sequences, such as the intronic BCL-6 gene, could be the target of the somatic hypermutation process in normal memory B cells. Our finding of a normal mutation frequency of the BCL-6 gene in two hypomutated CVID point to a defect of the Ig targeting of hypermutation machinery in these cases.
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