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Abstract
Prurigo nodularis (PN) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease characterized by pruritic skin nodules of unknown etiology. Little is known about genetic changes in PN pathogenesis, particularly somatic events, which are often implicated in inflammatory conditions. We thus performed whole-exome sequencing on 54 lesional and nonlesional skin biopsies from 17 patients with PN and 10 patients with atopic dermatitis (AD) for comparison. Somatic mutational analysis revealed that PN lesional skin harbors recurrent somatic mutations in fibrotic, neurotropic, and cancer-associated genes that are absent in adjacent PN nonlesional skin. Nonsynonymous mutations were most frequently present in NOTCH1 and the Notch signaling pathway, a key regulator of cellular proliferation and tissue fibrosis. In contrast, NOTCH1 mutations were absent in AD. Somatic copy-number analysis, combined with expression data, identified recurrently deleted and downregulated genes in PN lesional skin, which are associated with axonal guidance and extension. Follow-up immunofluorescence validation demonstrated increased NOTCH1 expression in PN lesional skin fibroblasts and increased Notch signaling in PN lesional dermis. Finally, a multicenter analysis revealed increased risk of NOTCH1-associated diseases in patients with PN. In characterizing the somatic landscape of PN, this study highlights the potential role of Notch pathway dysregulation in PN pathogenesis and fibrosis.
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Ahmad Rajeh, Shahin Shahsavari, Hannah Cornman, Alexander Kollhoff, Anuj Gupta, Mindy D. Szeto, Anusha Kambala, Olusola O. Oladipo, Varsha Parthasarathy, Junwen Deng, Melika Marani, Shirin Shahsavari, Selina M. Yossef, Vedha Vaddaraju, Waleed Adawi, Yagiz M. Akiska, Davies M. Gage, Sarah Wheelan, Thomas Pritchard, Madan M. Kwatra, Yevgeniy R. Semenov, Alexander Gusev, Won Jin Ho, Srinivasan Yegnasubramanian, Shawn G. Kwatra
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