Table 1.
Clinical and genetic summary of patients with TCF3 deficiency
| Pt. | Inheritance | Variant | Zygosity | Mechanism | Ethnicity | Sex | Age | Onset | Infections | Other findings | CD19+B cells (/µL) / (% of lymphocytes) |
Hypo/Agammaglobulinemia | IgG (g/L) | IgA (g/L) | IgM (g/L) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AR |
c.808 C>T p.Q270* |
Homo | LOF | Tunisian | M | 10 years | Early childhood | Recurrent pneumonia and meningitis | Facial dysmorphic features, B-ALL | NA / 0.1 | Yes | NA | NA | NA | [22] |
| 2 | AR |
c.808 C>T p.Q270* |
Homo | LOF | Tunisian | F | 13 years | Early childhood | Recurrent pneumonia | Facial dysmorphic features, failure to thrive | NA / 3.5 | Yes | 6.75 | 0.67 | 0.18 | [22] |
| 3 | AR |
Exons 5–11 deletion |
Homo | LOF | NA | F | 9 years | 1 year | Recurrent pneumonia, chronic diarrhea | Anemia, failure to thrive | 49 / 1.2 | Yes | 1.11 | < 0.15 | 0.14 | [23] |
| 4 | AR |
c.380 C>G p.S127* |
Homo | LOF | Iranian | F | 32 years | 7 years | Recurrent otitis, sinusitis, pneumonia, herpetic encephalitis | Mild hearing loss due to herpetic encephalitis | 0 / 0.2 | Yes | 4.30 | 0.07 | 0.22 | [24] |
| 5 | AR |
c.1451–18 A>T p.G486Lfs*4 |
Homo | LOF | NA | M | 6 years | NA | Recurrent pneumonia | Facial dysmorphic features, B-ALL | 0 / 0 | Yes | 1.37 | 0.07 | 0.32 | [21] |
| 6 | AR |
c.1451–18 A>T p.G486Lfs*4 |
Homo | LOF | NA | M | 3 years | NA | No | Facial dysmorphic features | 116 / 2.5 | Yes | 2.95 | 0.12 | 0.11 | [21] |
| 7 | AR |
c.1451–18 A>T p.G486Lfs*4 |
Homo | LOF | NA | F | 8 months | NA | No | Facial dysmorphic features, B-ALL | 210 / 3.0 | Yes | 2.30 | 0.31 | 0.12 | [21] |
| 8 | AR |
c.1326 + 5 G>A p.L442_V443ins27 |
Homo | LOF | NA | F | 7 years | NA | Bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia, EBV-associated leukocytosis with lymphocytosis | Facial dysmorphic features, mild intellectual disability | 396 / 8.2 | Yes | 7.52a | 0.27 | 0.17 | [21] |
| 9 | AD |
c.808 C>T p.Q270* |
Hetero | HI | Tunisian | M | 49 years | No | No | No | NA / 1.9 | No | 8.91 | 3.21 | 0.21 | [22] |
| 10 | AD |
c.808 C>T p.Q270* |
Hetero | HI | Tunisian | F | 49 years | No | No | No | NA / 2.0 | No | 10.23 | 1.13 | 0.59 | [22] |
| 11 | AD |
c.808 C>T p.Q270* |
Hetero | HI | Tunisian | M | 10 years | No | No | No | NA / 2.4 | No | 9.25 | 1.51 | 0.37 | [22] |
| 12 | AD |
c.380 C>G p.S127* |
Hetero | HI | Iranian | M | NA | No | No | No | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | [24] |
| 13 | AD |
c.380 C>G p.S127* |
Hetero | HI | Iranian | F | NA | No | No | No | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | [24] |
| 14 | AD |
c.380 C>G p.S127* |
Hetero | HI | Iranian | M | NA | No | No | No | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | [24] |
| 15 | AD |
c.1451–18 A>T p.G486Lfs*4 |
Hetero | HI | NA | M | 26 years | No | No | No | 175 / 5.3 | No | 12.62 | 3.12 | 0.45 | [21] |
| 16 | AD |
c.1451–18 A>T p.G486Lfs*4 |
Hetero | HI | NA | F | 23 years | No | No | No | 50 / 7.0 | Yes | 7.26 | 0.39 | 0.35 | [21] |
| 17 | AD |
c.1541 C>A p.S514* |
Hetero | HI | NA | M | 10 years | NA | Varicella, impetigo, oral thrush, gastroenteritis | No | 136 / 4.1 | Yes | 9.01a | 0.28 | 0.18 | [21] |
| 18 | AD |
c.599_600delinsGCT p.Y200Cfs*54 |
Hetero | HI | NA | F | 53 years | NA | Recurrent and chronic sinus infection | Asthma, granulomatous lung disease, obesity, type 2 diabetes, diabetes insipidus | 124 / 8.7 | Yes | 4.86 | 1.62 | 0.10 | [21] |
| 19 | AD |
c.1326 + 5 G>A p.V433* |
Hetero | HI | NA | F | 32 years | No | No | Cholecystectomy | 366 / 10.8 | NA | NA | NA | NA | [21] |
| 20 | AD |
c.1739del p.D580Afs*29 |
Hetero | HI | NA | F | 62 years | NA | Recurrent sinusitis, impaired vaccination response to pneumococcus | No | 204 / 5.7 | Yes | 5.60 | 1.30 | 0.30 | [21] |
| 21 | AD |
c.1451–18 A>G p.0 |
Hetero | HI | NA | F | 27 years | NA | Pneumonia, bronchitis | Vitiligo | 166 / 4.8 | Yes | 3.90 | 0.70 | 0.30 | [21] |
| 22 | AD |
Chr19: 959,646–1,649,320 p.0 |
Hetero | HI | NA | F | 6 years | NA | Recurrent respiratory infections | Crohn’s disease, early onset IBS, Peutz‒Jeghers syndrome, mild motor and intellectual developmental delay | 76 / 2.7 | Yes | 6.46 | 0.43 | 0.11 | [21] |
| 23b | AD |
c.503_504insC p.T168Tfs*24 |
Hetero | HI | NA | F | 61 years | Teenage years | Meningitis, chronic diarrhea, recurrent respiratory infections, impaired vaccination response to pneumococcus, diphtheria, tetanus | Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, SLE |
NA / NA ↓ |
Yes | 4.50 | 0.20 | 0.20 | [25] |
| 24 | AD |
c.503_504insC p.T168Tfs*24 |
Hetero | HI | NA | M | 35 years | NA | Sinusitis, chronic tonsillitis, impaired vaccination response to pneumococcus, diphtheria, tetanus | Type 1 diabetes, seronegative arthritis, synovitis |
NA/NA ↓ |
Yes | 5.50 | < 0.07 | 0.40 | [25] |
| 25 | AD |
c.1663 G>A p.E555K |
Hetero | DN | North Americans of European | F | 34 years | 9 months | Pneumococcal meningitis | No | NA / 0.4 | Yes | 8.59a | < 0.07 | < 0.07 | [18, 19] |
| 26 | AD |
c.1663 G>A p.E555K |
Hetero | DN | North Americans of European | F | 8 years | 10 months | Recurrent otitis | Eosinophilic dermatitis | NA / 2.5 | Yes | < 0.33 | 0.14 | < 0.07 | [18, 19] |
| 27 | AD |
c.1663 G>A p.E555K |
Hetero | DN | North Americans of European | M | 15 years | 2 years | Vaccine-associated polio | Hepatomegaly | NA / 0.2 | Yes | 8.44a | < 0.01 | 0.10 | [18, 19] |
| 28 | AD |
c.1663 G>A p.E555K |
Hetero | DN | Mexican | M | 20 years | 4 years | Recurrent otitis and arthritis | No | NA / 1.5 | Yes | < 1.00 | < 0.05 | < 0.05 | [18, 19] |
| 29 | AD |
c.1663 G>A p.E555K |
Hetero | DN | British | F | 35 years | 11 months | Streptococcus pneumoniae pneumonia and empyema, intermittent sinusitis, Haemophilus influenzae conjunctivitis | No | 2 / 0.2 | Yes | < 0.50 | < 0.07 | < 0.10 | [20] |
| 30 | AD |
c.1663 G>A p.E555K |
Hetero | DN | NA | M | 23 years | NA | Gastroenteritis, Haemophilus influenzae type B meningitis, otitis, Rickettsia infection and pneumonia, bronchiectasis | No | 8 / 0.6 | Yes | 0.33 | 0.06 | 0.21 | [21] |
| 31 | AD |
c.1663 G>A p.E555K |
Hetero | DN | Japanese | M | 25 years | 6 months | Recurrent pneumonia, bronchitis, sinusitis, otitis media, mainly due to Haemophilus influenzae | Facial dysmorphic features, growth failure with GHD | 0 / 0 | Yes | 0.09 | 0.01 | 0.01 | This study |
a On immunoglobulin therapy, b The patient also has the heterozygous TNFRSF13B variant (c.310 T>C; p.C104R).
Pt., patient; Ref., reference; AR, autosomal recessive; AD, autosomal dominant; Homo, homozygosity; Hetero, heterozygosity; LOF, loss-of-function; HI, haploinsufficiency; DN, dominant-negative; M, male; F, female; NA, not available; B-ALL, B-cell acute lymphoid leukemia; EBV, Epstein‒Barr virus; IBS, irritable bowel syndrome; SLE, systemic lupus erythematosus; GHD, growth hormone deficiency