Here, we report a patient who presented with recurrent infections and inflammation at the age of 2 years.
Case#: Patient 16 (P16) is a female child, ethnicity not specified.
DiseaseAssertion: The patient is asserted to have CTLA-4 haploinsufficiency with autoimmune infiltration (CHAI)
FamilyInfo: Sanger sequencing of other family members revealed the same CTLA4 variant in seven females across four generations, all of whom are symptomatic with autoimmunity and/or recurrent infections. See Figure 1A for pedigree.
CasePresentingHPOs: HP:0004880 (Respiratory infections in early life), HP:0003256 (Abnormality of te coagulation cascade), HP:0001954 (recurrent fever), HP:0000967 (Petechiae), HP:0002014 (Diarrea), HP:0003270 (Abdominal distention), HP:0025085 (Bloody diarrhea), HP:0001943 (Hypoglycemia), HP:0034315 (Chronic cough), HP:0000010 (Recurrent urinary tract infections), HP:0000076 (Vesicoureteral reflux)
CaseHPOFreeText: In infancy the patient was hospitalized multiple times for respiratory viral infections and an episode of transient coagulopathy. She continued to experience respiratory infections, prolonged bleeding with transient coagulopathy, and intermittent bloody diarrhea. Patient had intermittent elevated lactate. Flow cytometry demonstrated normal lymphocyte subsets and immunoglobulin concentrations were within normal limits. Soluble IL-2 receptor levels were elevated. Gastrostomy tube was placed at 26 months due to recurrent hypoglycemia and poor growth.
CaseNotHPOs: N/A
CaseNotHPOFreeText: N/A
CasePreviousTesting: Whole exome sequencing performed at 18 months old reported no diagnostic variants. Mitochondrial genome analysis was normal.
GenotypingMethod: Genotyping was performed via whole exome sequencing, which initially did not identify any diagnostic variants. Research analysis of the clinical exome data identified the CTLA4 variant.
PreviouslyPublished No prior article is known to contain information on the same proband.
Variant: The patient is heterozygous for the NM_005214.5: c.654T>A (p.Tyr218*) variant.
ClinVar: 2440604
gnomAD: This variant has an allele frequency of 0.0006536 in gnomAD v4.1.1 (https://gnomad.broadinstitute.org/variant/chr3-38011318-G-A?dataset=gnomad_r4)
SupplementalData: N/A