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I most likely have a deletion on chromosome 6 foxc1 6p25.I think this can be involved with immune response to EBV what could I do to correct it any ideas
Have you been diagnosed with Rieger Anomaly or Axenfeld-Reiger Syndrome? Or do you have some other reason to believe that you have a deletion on FOXC1?
 

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Yes I have axenfeld riegers syndrome been tested for PITX2 that was fine so must be either FOXC1 or unknown
Its recorded as riegers anomaly but I have all the features of axenfeld riegers syndrome,I think it could be called riegers syndrome and that would be the same thing
 

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It's a bit of an orphan condition and no one seems to know much about it beyond its three main features,but I think there is a bit more to it that's worth investigating.
Im not under a specialist for it but might ask about going back to confirm FOXC1 through testing
 

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I did wonder if it could be the basis of an inherited immunodeficiency in regards to EBV
 
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Im not under a specialist for it but might ask about going back to confirm FOXC1 through testing
Probably a good idea. I don't think anyone on this forum is going to know even a small fraction of what a specialist would. There should be ophthalmologists who are at least somewhat familiar with it, and have a great deal of related eye experience (glaucoma and ocular hypertension).

From what I can understand, the structural damage is done by the faulty gene during the embryonic stage. So it sounds like there are some treatments which can help cope with the effects of that, such as increased fluid pressure in the eye, and that is what can lead to glaucoma. Or something :p

So your opthalmologist should be able see if pressure is a problem for you (ocular hypertension), and prescribe appropriate medications if possible, just as they would with ocular hypertension caused by other factors. But basically it's a matter of dealing with the damage which the genetic mutation has done, rather than doing anything to alter the functioning of the gene.
 

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Thanks for taking the time to look and respond.
The eye pressure is under control,I'm more interested in the other aspects of it that fall into research I suppose,like is the gene location involved in response to EBV.I know chromosome 6 is involved in immune response and from being in a axenfeld riegers group I know there is more going on as fibromyalgia is also a common co condition along with Autism
 

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I saw something about interferon but don't even know what this is,so back to the research.
 

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Theres no officially known immune dysfunction that comes with Axenfeld riegers so it must be a rare part of a rare disorder or part of another disorder,I wondered if it could be something to do with Digeorge.
 

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Id say there is an immune problem connected to axenfeld riegers syndrome,im not sure if it is a new immunodeficiency or a new connection of a known immunodeficiency either way id like someone to write a paper.
If its not the real ME/cfs then its a good mimic.
 

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It maybe riegers (anomaly)syndrome 13q14 FOX01 with some vague link to leukaemia B (and T?) cells. Roll out the rituximab?
 
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FOXC1 and FOXO1A both seem to be leukaemia risk sites,Tumour surpression sites,although I haven't heard of a case of leukaemia in Axenfeld riegers syndrome. I wonder if it may effect function of B cells(and t cells?)
http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk...s-partner-in-crime-in-leukaemia-mystery-case/
http://research-information.bristol...1c2a-bd64-4462-b689-264a30743cdf)/export.html
Plenty of references to 13q14 being a leukaemia genetic risk site.
Breast cancer is probably connected to this at 13q12-13 BRCA2
I wouldn't mind getting the whole of chromosome 13 looked at
Probarbly deletions at 13q12-14,i wonder how this effects cellular function,B cells and t cells?
FOXO1A seems to be involved in metabolism and B cell signalling http://www.phosphosite.org/proteinAction.action?id=973&showAllSites=true A central regulator of metabolism in several cell types
B cell neoplasia and MHC class 2 deficiency group B are the others of interest around these regions
 
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I know no one will have riegers,but is this region of chromosome 13 in general important,taking a wider look BRCA2 is there and it seems to be a region for B cell stuff and metabolism.
 

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someone with elher danlos has just joined the axenfeld rieger syndrome group so I guess they can exist together