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Tyrosinase negative Albinisim
OCA Type 1
Defect in OCA 1
Tyrosinase
Pathogenesis of OCA1
Tyrosinase mutations --> lead to absent tyrosinase activity or lack of tyrosinase transport to melanosomes
T/F Decreased number of melanocytes in OCA1
False - normal number of melanocytes; cannot produced melanin
Skin color in OCA1
Pink white color
Increased risk of skin cancer in OCA 1?
Yes - SCC > BCC > MM
Why do OCA1 patients have eye findings?
Miswiring of optic fibers -->
nystagmus, photophobia, impaired visual acutity, strabismus,
Color of eyes in OCA1?
Blue to great cule irides
Features of OCA1B
Yellow mutant; minimal pigment and temperature sensitive albinism
Tyrosinase positive albinism
OCA2
Inheritance and gene in OCA2
AR; P gene
What is most common form of albinism?
OCA2
What is the pathogenesis of OCA2?
P Gene mutation --> decrease eumelanin synthesis
Gene product thought to play a role in tyrosinases tranport
OCA2 is tyrosinase negative
False - it has tyrosinase (tyr +)
skin findings in OCA2
generalized pink-white to cream color; multiple pigmented nevi, ephelides and lentigines
Solar keratoses
SCC and BCC
How do the hair features in OCA1 differ from OCA2?
Snow white hair in OCA1
Cream to yellow brown in OCA2
Eye findings in OCA2
Blue to yellow brown irides
Nystagmus, photophobia
Impaired VA, strabismus, foveal hypoplasia
Inheritance and gene of Hermansky Pudlak Syndrome
AR; HPS1 and AP3B1 for HPS2
Most common gene in HPS?
HPS1 found in NW Puerto rico and swiss village
Result of mutations of HPS genes?
HPS1 - important in localization via intracellular trafficking and organelle formation
AP3B1 (HPS2) - important in protein packaging, veiscular formation and membrane fusion within the cell
Why do patients with HPS have a bleeding diasthesis?
platelet storage pool defect with decreased ADP, ATP --> platelet aggregation
What results from lysosomal membrane defect?
accumulation of ceroid lipofuscin in macrophages within lung and GI tract.
Skin findings that differentiate HPS from OCAs
Pigment dilution
Ecchymoses and petechiae

Common findings - pigmented nevi, solar keratoses, SCC, BCC
Color of hair in HPS?
Cream to red brown hair
(Without silvery sheen C2 CHS)
T/F HPS has similar eye findings as OCA1 and 2
True - photophobia, nystagmus, decr VA, strbismus, foveal hypoplasia
Name the lymphohistiocytic findings in HPS.
1) Lung - Pulmonary fibrosis
2) GI tract - granulomatous colitis
3) Heart - cardiomyopathy
What causes the lyphohistiocytic findings in HPS?
ceroid deposition in macrophages
Lab abnormalities in HPS?
Prolonged Bleeding time
Normal PT/PTT and platelet count
Name the microscopy finding of HPS
platelets without dense granules
What should HPS patients avoid?
ASA and PG synthesis inhibitors
Who is a tyrosinase positive albino?
HPS patients
What percentage of HPS patients develop symptomatic pulmonary fibrosis?
33%
Inheritance and gene for chediak higashi.
AR; LYST
What does the lyst gene encode for?
For Chediak Higashi
Lyst -->encoudes for lysosomal tracking protein that Microtubule mediated lysosmal fusion/fission and protein sorting.
What does the mutation in lyst result in?
Accumulation of giant lysosomal granules in a variety of cells:
PMNs - defective phagocytosis, decreased chemotaxis
Melanocytes - pigmentary dilution
Neurons - Progressive neurologic deterioration
Plately diesthesis
Decreased NK cell and AB dependent cytolysis
Skin color and hair color in chediak higashi
slate gray to light cream color skin

light blonde color with silver sheen
T/F CHS have recurrent bacterial infections.
How does it manifest?
True - M/C Staph
recurrent sinusitis, pneumonia
Which two syndromes have an accelerated hematologic phase?
CHS
Griscelli
What is the accelerated phase?
lymphohistiocytic proliferation with infiltration of liver, spleen, and LN

Has assoc anemia, netopenia, TCP
Eye findings in chs.
photophobia; strabismus, nystagmus, decreased uveal pigment
How can you diagnose CHS in lab?
CBC checking for giant granules in neuts.
T/F platelet storage pool defect in CHS is less than in hPs
true
INheritance and genes of griscelli syndrome?
AR; genes myosin Va or RAB27a
What are the genes in griscelli syndrome involved with?
Proteins are involved in organelle trafficking and membrane transport
A small portion of griscelli patient have what gene mutation?
melanophilin
Hair and skin color in griscelli.
silver gray hair eyebrows, lashes

Pigmentary dilution
What makes the heme findings different in griscelli syndrome?
neutropenia and tcp without leukocyte inclusions
Name immunologic abnormality in griscelli
Combined T and B cell immunodef --> pyogenic infections; HSM; accelerated lymphoma like phase
CNS findings in CHS.
progressive neuro deterioration with ataxia,, m. weakness, and sensory loss
Neuro findings in griscelli? T/F
True - progressive deterioration with hypotonia, psychomotor retardation, sz
Light microscopy finding in Griscelli
uneven clumps of mlanin in medulla of hair shaft (C2 CHS - even small clumps)
CBC findings in griscelli
absent cytoplasmic inclusion bodies in neuts
Difference between phentype seen in griscelli gene mutations.
MYO5a - neuro impairment without hemophagocytic syndrome

RAB27A - hemophagocytic syndrome with secondary CNS involvement
Ejalde syndrome gene defect
myosin Va (allelic to griscelli)
Clinical Fx of ejalde
silvery hair
severe neuro
No immunodeficiency or hemophagocytosis
Large irregular distribution of melanosomes
Piebaldism inheritance and gene defect
AD; C kit
What does the gene defect of piebaldism result in?
ckit mutation results in abnormal TK transmembrane Receptors --> abnormal melanocyte embryogenesis with defecctive melanoblast prolif, migration, and distribution
Characteristic finding in piebaldism
white forelock 80-90%
Inheritance and genes of waardenburg syndrome
AD; Pax (1 and 3), MITF (2), Sox10 and endothelin (4)
Pathogenesis of gene causing waardenburg 1 and 3
PAX3 --> txn factor that controls neural crest differentiation and reg tx of other genes downstream
Pathogenesis of gene causing waardenburg 2
MITF --> melanocyte txn factor
Pathogenesis of gene causing waardenburg 4
SOX10, endothelin, and endothelin R gene mutations
T/F patient with waardenburg have depigmented patches
T
Hair findings in waardenberg
Synophry (70%) white forelock (< 50%)
Nose finding in waardenberg
Broad nasal root (80%)
Which waardenburg does not have dystopia canthorum?
WHat is it?
Not in 2 but in 99%
Lateral displacement of medial canthi with normal interpupillary distance
% with heterochromic irides
25%
Congenital SNHL is most common in which waardenburg?
II
about 20%
which waardenburg has hirschprung dz?
< 5%; type IV
Eponym for hypomelanosis of ito.
incontinentia pigmenti achromians
T/F Inheritance of hypomelanosis of ito is AD.
False - not inherited
Findings of hypomelanosis of ito
Marble cake hypopigmentation in blaschkos lines
alopecia
CNS - sz
Eyes - striabismus and hypertelorism
MS - scoliosis and lim length discrepancy
Teeth - anodontia
Block Sulzberger
IP
What is the inheritance and gene of IP?
XLD; Nemo
In IP, 97% of survivors are female. What are male survivors thought to have?
Klinefelter
What is the function of gene mutated in IP?
NEMO --> NFkappa beta modulator --> defective activation
of txn factor essential for several inflamm, immune and apoptotic pw
Nail, hair and teeth findings....in IP
Hair - scarring alopecia
Nails - dystrophic changes
Teeth - anodontia, peg conical teeth
Eye and CNS findings in IP.
Eye - strabismus, cataracts, optic atrophy, retinal vascular changes

CNS (30%)
Sz, MR, spastic pearalysis
T/F IP patient have early death.
False - normal life span
Inheritance of gene of LEOPARD syndrome
AD; PTPN11 gene
Eponym for LEOPARD
Lentigines - generalize; mucosa spared
ECG conduction defects
Ocular hypertelorism
Pulmonic stenosis
Abonormal Genitalia
Retardation of Growth
Deafness (SN)
Pathogenesis of Leopard
Defect in PTPN11 --> encodes nonreceptor protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP2 --> implicated in Noonan
Genoderm implicated by gene defect of Leopard
PTPN11

Noonan
Craniofacial defects in LEOPARD
ocular hypertelorism
Triangular facies
Normal or shortened life span in leopard?
Normal
CARNEY Complex Inheritance, eponym, gene
AD; NAME and LAMB; PRKaR1A
What does the gene defect in Carney complex cause?
Tumor suppressor encoding the regulatory subunit type 1A of protein kinase A isolated in half the cases
NAME =
Nevi - blue and melanocytic
Atrial myxomas
Myxomas
Ephelids ( can be on mucosa)
Name the endocrine abnormalities found in carney?
Pigmented nodular adrenocoritical dz - Cushing
Pituitary Adnoma - acromegaly
Two other non endocrine tumors seen in Carney.
Testicular tumors
Psammomatous melanotic schwannomas
Treatment of atrial myxomas.
excision
Bone findings of mccune-albright syndrome
polyostotic fibrous dysplasia --. recurrent fx
Endocrine findings of Mccune albright?
Precocious purberty;
20-30% hyperthyroidism
Eponym for NF1
Von Recklinghausen Dz
Inheritance and gene for NF1
AD; Spontaneous in 50%
Pathogenesis of NF1
Neurfibromin is a Tumor suppresor that dampens products of ras proto-oncogenes
Which is most common form of NF?
NF1
For CALMs, number that suggests NF1
Greater than 6
Eye findings in NF1
Lisch nodules - 90% patients > 6 yo; congenital glaucoma
Skeletal findings of NF1
Sphenoid wing dysplasia
macrocephaly
scoliolsis
What is important to check (VS) in NF1 patients?
Blood pressure --> pheo or RAS
Dx of NF1 (Consensus)
6 or more CALMFS > 5mm in prepubertal and over 15mm in post pubertal
2+ NF or one plexiform
Freckling in the axillary or inguinal region
Optic glioma
2+ lisch nodules
distinctive osseous lesion - sphenoid wingl dysplasia or thinning of long bone cortex
first degree relative with NF1
Inheritance and gene of NF2
AD; SCH - shwnnomin/merlin protein product --> affects tumor suppressor
NF and CALM are less or more common in NF2
Less common
Eye finding of NF2
Juvenile posterior subcapsular lenticular opacity
Characteristic tumor of NF2
B/l vestibular schwannomas (acoustic schwannoma)
may be complicated by deafness, tinnitus and poor balance
Tuberous sclerosis eponym, genes, and inheritance
Bourneville's syndrome; epiloia
AD
TSC1 and TSC2
Products of the TS genes
TSC1 hamartin, TSC2 tuberin --> tumor suppression and interact to reg GTPas activity
Most common type of macule?
Polygonal
Most characteristic and earliest finding?
ash leaf macule
Name the CNS findings in TS.
Spasms, sz, MR, paraventricular calcification
Kidney findings of TS
angiomyolipoma, cysts
Cardiac TS
rhabdomyoma
Findings of lungs in TS
Lympha\gniomyomatosis
Any involvement of mouth in TS?
yes, enamel pits, gingival fibromas
Another facial finding of TS?
fibrous plaque of face