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<Articles JournalTitle="Immunology and Genetics Journal">
  <Article>
    <Journal>
      <PublisherName>Tehran University of Medical Sciences</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Immunology and Genetics Journal</JournalTitle>
      <Issn>2645-4831</Issn>
      <Volume>8</Volume>
      <Issue>3</Issue>
      <PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
        <Year>2025</Year>
        <Month>03</Month>
        <Day>12</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </Journal>
    <title locale="en_US">De novo CXCR4 Mutation in WHIM Syndrome: Report of a 4-Year-Old Case without Wart and Myelokathexis</title>
    <FirstPage>303</FirstPage>
    <LastPage>307</LastPage>
    <AuthorList>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Shayan</FirstName>
        <LastName>Roshdi</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Medical Genetics Network (MeGeNe), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Munich, Germany</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Sepideh</FirstName>
        <LastName>Shahkarami</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Pediatrics, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit&#xE4;t M&#xFC;nchen, Munich, Germany; Research Center for Immunodeficiencies, Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Samaneh</FirstName>
        <LastName>Zoghi</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Research Center for Immunodeficiencies, Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute (CCRI), Vienna, Austria</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Elham</FirstName>
        <LastName>Rayzan</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Research Center for Immunodeficiencies, Pediatrics Center of Excellence, Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; 4 Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Network of Immunity in Infection, Malignancy and Autoimmunity (NIIMA), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Rasol</FirstName>
        <LastName>Molatefi</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Pediatric department of Bou-Ali Educational Hospital, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Meino</FirstName>
        <LastName>Rohlfs</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Pediatrics, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit&#xE4;t M&#xFC;nchen, Munich, Germany</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Christoph</FirstName>
        <LastName>Klein</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Pediatrics, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit&#xE4;t M&#xFC;nchen, Munich, Germany</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Nima</FirstName>
        <LastName>Rezaei</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Research Center for Immunodeficiencies, Pediatrics Center of Excellence, Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Network of Immunity in Infection, Malignancy and Autoimmunity (NIIMA), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran</affiliation>
      </Author>
    </AuthorList>
    <History>
      <PubDate PubStatus="received">
        <Year>2025</Year>
        <Month>01</Month>
        <Day>16</Day>
      </PubDate>
      <PubDate PubStatus="accepted">
        <Year>2025</Year>
        <Month>03</Month>
        <Day>12</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </History>
    <abstract locale="en_US">WHIM syndrome (Warts, Hypogammaglobulinemia, Immunodeficiency, and Myelokathexis syndrome), a type of severe congenital neutropenia (SCN), involves Warts, Hypogammaglobulinemia, Infections, and Myelokathexis as its main components of clinical presentation, which results from mutations in the C-X-C chemokine receptor type 4 (CXCR4) gene.
Here, we present an Iranian 4-year-old girl with severe congenital neutropenia without warts and normal bone marrow examination, lacking evidence of myelokathexis. Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) was performed for the patient. Subsequently, Sanger segregation/validation was done of the patient and her parents. Whole exam sequencing identified a heterozygous stop variant mutation in CXCR4 (NM_001008540.2:c.1012C&gt;T; p.Arg338Ter) in the patient. Two of the main clinical criteria in WHIM syndrome, including warts and myelokathexis, were not observed in our patient. So, the absence of warts is not deceptive in ruling out the disease. This case report also represents the high importance of genetic analysis as a primary tool for the accurate differential diagnosis of patients with neutropenia.</abstract>
    <web_url>https://igj.tums.ac.ir/index.php/igj/article/view/168</web_url>
    <pdf_url>https://igj.tums.ac.ir/index.php/igj/article/download/168/190</pdf_url>
  </Article>
</Articles>
