Retrospective Cohort Study
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World J Clin Pediatr. Jun 9, 2023; 12(3): 107-114
Published online Jun 9, 2023. doi: 10.5409/wjcp.v12.i3.107
IFIH1 and DDX58 gene variants in pediatric rheumatic diseases
Rinat Raupov, Evgeny Suspitsin, Konstantin Belozerov, Tatiana Gabrusskaya, Mikhail Kostik
Rinat Raupov, Konstantin Belozerov, Mikhail Kostik, Department of Pediatry, Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Saint-Petersburg 194100, Russia
Evgeny Suspitsin, Department of Genetics, Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Saint-Petersburg 194100, Russia
Tatiana Gabrusskaya, Department of Gastrointestinal Diseases, Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Saint-Petersburg 194100, Russia
Author contributions: All authors contributed to the manuscript revision, read, and approved the submitted version.
Institutional review board statement: The Ethic Committee of Saint-Petersburg Sate Pediatric Medical University approved the study (protocol # 1/3 от 11.01.2021).
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Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
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Corresponding author: Mikhail Kostik, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Pediatry, Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Lytovskaya 2, Saint-Petersburg 194100, Russia. kost-mikhail@yandex.ru
Received: December 30, 2022
Peer-review started: December 30, 2022
First decision: January 20, 2023
Revised: February 3, 2023
Accepted: April 24, 2023
Article in press: April 24, 2023
Published online: June 9, 2023
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Core Tip: Interferon (IFN) I signaling pathway is the important part of innate immune system and antiviral defense. It’s known that defects in the components of IFN I signaling system can leads to its hyperactivation. This pathogenetic phenomenon is considered as one of the most important in the pathogenesis of immune-mediated diseases, such as systemic lupus erythematosus, dermatomyositis, systemic autoinflammatory diseases. From database containing 92 patients with different rheumatic diseases, whom clinical exome sequencing was performed we selected 14 children (10 girls and 4 boys): 7 patients had DDX58 and 7 had IFIH1 gene variants. The majority of patient with different DDX58 and IFI1 variants had hyperactivation of IFN I signaling pathway.