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Immunodeficiency-centromeric instability-facial anomalies syndrome

ICF syndrome is an autosomal recessive immunodeficiency syndrome caused by mutations of the DNMT3B gene.

Systematic

Primary immunodeficiency
Achondroplasia-SCID syndrome
Autoinflammation, antibody deficiency, and immune dysregulation syndrome
Congenital sideroblastic anemia-B-cell immunodeficiency-periodic fever-developmental delay syndrome
Disposition to infections
IRAK4 deficiency
Immunodeficiency 20
Immunodeficiency 21
Immunodeficiency 31A
Immunodeficiency 31B
Immunodeficiency 31C
Immunodeficiency 33
Immunodeficiency 38
Immunodeficiency 41
Immunodeficiency 51
Immunodeficiency 68
Immunodeficiency 69
Immunodeficiency 74, COVID19-related
Immunodeficiency-centromeric instability-facial anomalies syndrome
DNMT3B
Variable immunodeficiency type 7
Vasculitis due to ADA2 deficiency
Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome

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Smeets DF et al. (1994) ICF syndrome: a new case and review of the literature.

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Jeanpierre M et al. (1993) An embryonic-like methylation pattern of classical satellite DNA is observed in ICF syndrome.

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Gimelli G et al. (1993) ICF syndrome with variable expression in sibs.

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Franceschini P et al. (1995) Variability of clinical and immunological phenotype in immunodeficiency-centromeric instability-facial anomalies syndrome. Report of two new patients and review of the literature.

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Thoraval D et al. (1996) Demethylation of repetitive DNA sequences in neuroblastoma.

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Miniou P et al. (1997) alpha-satellite DNA methylation in normal individuals and in ICF patients: heterogeneous methylation of constitutive heterochromatin in adult and fetal tissues.

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Sumner AT et al. (1998) A FISH study of chromosome fusion in the ICF syndrome: involvement of paracentric heterochromatin but not of the centromeres themselves.

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Kondo T et al. (2000) Whole-genome methylation scan in ICF syndrome: hypomethylation of non-satellite DNA repeats D4Z4 and NBL2.

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Hansen RS et al. (2000) Escape from gene silencing in ICF syndrome: evidence for advanced replication time as a major determinant.

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Wijmenga C et al. (1998) Localization of the ICF syndrome to chromosome 20 by homozygosity mapping.

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De Ravel TJ et al. (2001) The ICF syndrome: new case and update.

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Tao Q et al. (2002) Defective de novo methylation of viral and cellular DNA sequences in ICF syndrome cells.

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Kubota T et al. (2004) ICF syndrome in a girl with DNA hypomethylation but without detectable DNMT3B mutation.

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Kloeckener-Gruissem B et al. (2005) A new and a reclassified ICF patient without mutations in DNMT3B and its interacting proteins SUMO-1 and UBC9.

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Jin B et al. (2008) DNA methyltransferase 3B (DNMT3B) mutations in ICF syndrome lead to altered epigenetic modifications and aberrant expression of genes regulating development, neurogenesis and immune function.

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Thijssen PE et al. (2015) Mutations in CDCA7 and HELLS cause immunodeficiency-centromeric instability-facial anomalies syndrome.

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Stacey M et al. (1995) FISH analysis on spontaneously arising micronuclei in the ICF syndrome.

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Okano M et al. (1999) DNA methyltransferases Dnmt3a and Dnmt3b are essential for de novo methylation and mammalian development.

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Xu GL et al. (1999) Chromosome instability and immunodeficiency syndrome caused by mutations in a DNA methyltransferase gene.

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Wijmenga C et al. (2000) Genetic variation in ICF syndrome: evidence for genetic heterogeneity.

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Ehrlich M et al. (2001) DNA methyltransferase 3B mutations linked to the ICF syndrome cause dysregulation of lymphogenesis genes.

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Bickmore WA et al. (2003) Perturbations of chromatin structure in human genetic disease: recent advances.

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Jiang YL et al. (2005) DNMT3B mutations and DNA methylation defect define two types of ICF syndrome.

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Tiepolo L et al. (1979) Multibranched chromosomes 1, 9, and 16 in a patient with combined IgA and IgE deficiency.

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Maraschio P et al. (1992) Interphase cytogenetics of the ICF syndrome.

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Orphanet article

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OMIM.ORG article

Omim 242860 external link
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Wikipedia article

Wikipedia EN (Immunodeficiency–centromeric_instability–facial_anomalies_syndrome) external link
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