Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) is characterized by the presence in the patient's hematopoietic system of a large cell population with a mutation in the X-linked PIG-A gene. Although this abnormal cell population is often found to be monoclonal, it is not unusual that 2 or even several PIG-A mutant clones coexist in the same patient. Therefore, it has been suggested that the PIG-A gene may be hypermutable in PNH. By a method we have recently developed for measuring the intrinsic rate of somatic mutations (mu) in humans, in which PIG-A itself is used as a sentinel gene, we have found that in 5 patients with PNH, mu ranged from 1.24 x 10(-7) to 11.2 x 10(-7), against a normal range of 2.4 x 10(-7) to 29.6 x 10(-7) mutations per cell division. We conclude that genetic instability of the PIG-A gene is not a factor in the pathogenesis of PNH.
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