Common haplotype dependency of high G gamma-globin gene expression and high Hb F levels in beta-thalassemia and sickle cell anemia patients.

AUTOR(ES)

Labie, D

RESUMO

We have studied 42 homozygous beta-thalassemia patients from Algeria and 34 sickle cell anemia patients from Senegal and Benin, determining the relationship between haplotypes, Hb F, and G gamma-globin/A gamma-globin ratios. Populations selected have a high frequency of haplotype homozygotes because of consanguinity (Algeria) and geographic homogeneity (West Africa). We find in beta-thalassemia patients, that haplotype IX in haplotypic homozygotes and heterozygotes, haplotype III in heterozygotes, and the Senegal haplotype in sickle cell anemia patients are all linked to high G gamma-globin expression. In addition, haplotypes IX and Senegal, but not haplotype III, have high Hb F levels. All of these haplotype have a common subhaplotype (+- ) in the gamma-globin gene region. In addition, haplotypes IX, III, and Senegalese sickle cell anemia patients exhibit hematological amelioration of their disease. Conversely, haplotypes I, V, and A in thalassemia patients, which also have a common subhaplotype (-----), and the Benin subhaplotype (--++-) in sickle cell anemia patients are all associated with low G gamma-globin and low Hb F levels. Low G gamma-globin expression in the adult is associated with two haplotypes that are not common between thalassemia and sickle cell anemia patients. We conclude that the determinant for high G gamma-globin expression is haplotype-linked to common and genetically dominant subhaplotypes in the two diseases. The total Hb F level, unlike the high G gamma-globin expression, however, is linked to haplotypes but not to subhaplotypes, thus dissociating the two genetic effects.

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