Frontiers in Pediatrics (May 2024)

IKAROS—how many feathers have you lost: mild and severe phenotypes in IKZF1 deficiency

  • Timmy Strauss,
  • Timmy Strauss,
  • Timmy Strauss,
  • Julia Körholz,
  • Julia Körholz,
  • Julia Körholz,
  • Hye Sun Kuehn,
  • Agustin A. Gil Silva,
  • Franziska Taube,
  • Franziska Taube,
  • Karolin Trautmann-Grill,
  • Anna Stittrich,
  • Leonora Pietzsch,
  • Leonora Pietzsch,
  • Ralf Wiedemuth,
  • Ralf Wiedemuth,
  • Volker Wahn,
  • Horst von Bernuth,
  • Horst von Bernuth,
  • Horst von Bernuth,
  • Sergio D. Rosenzweig,
  • Maria Fasshauer,
  • Renate Krüger,
  • Catharina Schuetz,
  • Catharina Schuetz,
  • Catharina Schuetz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2024.1345730
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12

Abstract

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Heterozygous germline variants in human IKZF1 encoding for IKAROS define an inborn error of immunity with immunodeficiency, immune dysregulation and risk of malignancy with a broad phenotypic spectrum. Growing evidence of underlying pathophysiological genotype-phenotype correlations helps to improve our understanding of IKAROS-associated diseases. We describe 6 patients from 4 kindreds with two novel IKZF1 variants leading to haploinsufficiency from 3 centers in Germany. We also provide an overview of first symptoms to a final diagnosis including data from the literature.

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