Table 1.

Congenital hematologic diseases lending themselves to study using hES cells


Disease

OMIM*

Genes

Blood phenotype
Fanconi anemia  227650  Several including BRCA2  Aplastic anemia, pancytopenia, MDS, AML  
TAR syndrome   274000   Unknown   Pancytopenia, anemia, hypercellular marrow, granulocytosis  
Severe congenital neutropenia   202700   Neutrophil elastase   Myeloid arrest, AML, agranulocytosis  
Shwachman-Diamond syndrome   260400  SBDS  Anemia, thrombocytopenia, pancytopenia, MDS, AML  
Diamond-Blackfan anemia   205900   Ribosomal protein S19, unknown   Macrocytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, fetal hemoglobin  
Trisomy 21   190685   N/A   Transient myeloproliferative disease, DS-AMKL  
Chuvash polycythemia   263400  VHL  Erythrocytosis, increased erythropoietin  
Neurofibromatosis type 1   162200   Neurofibromin   JMML  
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome   300322  HPRT1  Megaloblastic anemia  
SCID   601457   Several including ADA, RAG1/2   Lymphopenia, lack of mature B and T cells  
α-thalassemia   141800   α-globin   Methemoglobinemia, polycythemia, hemolysis  
β-thalassemia   141900   β-globin   Anemia, hypochromic microcytes, splenomegaly  
Sickle cell anemia
 
603903
 
β-globin
 
Anemia, septicemia, microvascular occlusion
 

Disease

OMIM*

Genes

Blood phenotype
Fanconi anemia  227650  Several including BRCA2  Aplastic anemia, pancytopenia, MDS, AML  
TAR syndrome   274000   Unknown   Pancytopenia, anemia, hypercellular marrow, granulocytosis  
Severe congenital neutropenia   202700   Neutrophil elastase   Myeloid arrest, AML, agranulocytosis  
Shwachman-Diamond syndrome   260400  SBDS  Anemia, thrombocytopenia, pancytopenia, MDS, AML  
Diamond-Blackfan anemia   205900   Ribosomal protein S19, unknown   Macrocytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, fetal hemoglobin  
Trisomy 21   190685   N/A   Transient myeloproliferative disease, DS-AMKL  
Chuvash polycythemia   263400  VHL  Erythrocytosis, increased erythropoietin  
Neurofibromatosis type 1   162200   Neurofibromin   JMML  
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome   300322  HPRT1  Megaloblastic anemia  
SCID   601457   Several including ADA, RAG1/2   Lymphopenia, lack of mature B and T cells  
α-thalassemia   141800   α-globin   Methemoglobinemia, polycythemia, hemolysis  
β-thalassemia   141900   β-globin   Anemia, hypochromic microcytes, splenomegaly  
Sickle cell anemia
 
603903
 
β-globin
 
Anemia, septicemia, microvascular occlusion
 

TAR indicates thrombocytopenia-absent radius; SCID, severe combined immunodeficiency; BRCA2, breast cancer type 2 gene; MDS, myelodysplastic syndrome; AML, acute myelogenous leukemia; SBDS, Shwachman-Bodie-Diamond syndrome gene; DS-AMKL, Down syndrome-associated acute megakaryoblastic leukemia; VHL, von Hippel-Lindau gene; JMML, juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia; HPRT, hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyltransferase 1 gene; ADA, adenosine deaminase; RAG, recombination activating gene.

*

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, OMIM. McKusick-Nathans Institute for Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD) and National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine (Bethesda, MD), 2000. World Wide Web URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim/.

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