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Two new EPO receptor mutations: truncated EPO receptors are most frequently associated with primary familial and congenital polycythemias.

Primary polycythemias are caused by an acquired or inborn mutation affecting hematopoietic/erythroid progenitors that results in an abnormal response to hematopoietic cytokines. Primary familial and congenital polycythemia (PFCP; also known as familial erythrocytosis) is characterized by elevated red blood cell mass, low serum erythropoietin (EPO) level, normal oxygen affinity of hemoglobin, and typically autosomal dominant inheritance. In this study we screened for mutations in the cytoplasmic domain of the EPO receptor (EPOR; exons 7 and 8 of the EPOR gene) in 27 unrelated subjects with primary or unidentified polycythemia. Two new EPOR mutations were found, which lead to truncation of the EPOR similarly to previously described mutations in PFCP subjects. The first is a 7-bp deletion (del5985-5991) found in a Caucasian family from Ohio. The second mutation (5967insT) was found in a Caucasian family from the Czech Republic. In both cases the EPO dose responses of the erythroid progenitors of the affected subjects were examined to confirm the diagnosis of PFCP. In one of these families, the in vitro behavior of erythroid progenitors in serum-containing cultures without the addition of EPO mimicked the behavior of polycythemia vera progenitors; however, we show that antibodies against either EPO or the EPOR distinguish the in vitro growth abnormality of polycythemia vera erythroid progenitors from that seen in this particular PFCP family. We conclude that PFCP is a disorder that appears to be associated in some families with EPOR mutations. So far, most of the described EPOR mutations (6 out of 8) associated with PFCP result in an absence of the C-terminal negative regulatory domain of the receptor.[1]

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  1. Two new EPO receptor mutations: truncated EPO receptors are most frequently associated with primary familial and congenital polycythemias. Kralovics, R., Indrak, K., Stopka, T., Berman, B.W., Prchal, J.F., Prchal, J.T. Blood (1997) [Pubmed]
 
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