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Francisco R, Pascoal C, Marques-da-Silva D, Morava E, Gole GA, Coman D, Jaeken J, Dos Reis Ferreira V. Keeping an eye on congenital disorders of O-glycosylation: A systematic literature review. J Inherit Metab Dis 2019; 42:29-48. [PMID: 30740740 DOI: 10.1002/jimd.12025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG) are a rapidly growing family comprising >100 genetic diseases. Some 25 CDG are pure O-glycosylation defects. Even among this CDG subgroup, phenotypic diversity is broad, ranging from mild to severe poly-organ/system dysfunction. Ophthalmic manifestations are present in 60% of these CDG. The ophthalmic manifestations in N-glycosylation-deficient patients have been described elsewhere. The present review documents the spectrum and incidence of eye disorders in patients with pure O-glycosylation defects with the aim of assisting diagnosis and management and promoting research.
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- Rita Francisco
- UCIBIO, Departamento Ciências da Vida, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
- Portuguese Association for CDG, Lisbon, Portugal
- CDG & Allies - Professionals and Patient Associations International Network (CDG & Allies - PPAIN), Lisbon, Portugal
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- UCIBIO, Departamento Ciências da Vida, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
- Portuguese Association for CDG, Lisbon, Portugal
- CDG & Allies - Professionals and Patient Associations International Network (CDG & Allies - PPAIN), Lisbon, Portugal
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- UCIBIO, Departamento Ciências da Vida, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
- Portuguese Association for CDG, Lisbon, Portugal
- CDG & Allies - Professionals and Patient Associations International Network (CDG & Allies - PPAIN), Lisbon, Portugal
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- CDG & Allies - Professionals and Patient Associations International Network (CDG & Allies - PPAIN), Lisbon, Portugal
- Center for Metabolic Disease, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- CDG & Allies - Professionals and Patient Associations International Network (CDG & Allies - PPAIN), Lisbon, Portugal
- Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Queensland, Queensland Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- CDG & Allies - Professionals and Patient Associations International Network (CDG & Allies - PPAIN), Lisbon, Portugal
- Department of Metabolic Medicine, The Lady Cilento Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- CDG & Allies - Professionals and Patient Associations International Network (CDG & Allies - PPAIN), Lisbon, Portugal
- Center for Metabolic Disease, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Portuguese Association for CDG, Lisbon, Portugal
- CDG & Allies - Professionals and Patient Associations International Network (CDG & Allies - PPAIN), Lisbon, Portugal
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Booler HS, Williams JL, Hopkinson M, Brown SC. Degree of Cajal-Retzius Cell Mislocalization Correlates with the Severity of Structural Brain Defects in Mouse Models of Dystroglycanopathy. Brain Pathol 2015; 26:465-78. [PMID: 26306834 DOI: 10.1111/bpa.12306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2015] [Accepted: 08/23/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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The secondary dystroglycanopathies are characterized by the hypoglycosylation of alpha dystroglycan, and are associated with mutations in at least 18 genes that act on the glycosylation of this cell surface receptor rather than the Dag1 gene itself. At the severe end of the disease spectrum, there are substantial structural brain defects, the most striking of which is often cobblestone lissencephaly. The aim of this study was to determine the gene-specific aspects of the dystroglycanopathy brain phenotype through a detailed investigation of the structural brain defects present at birth in three mouse models of dystroglycanopathy-the FKRP(KD) , which has an 80% reduction in Fkrp transcript levels; the Pomgnt1null , which carries a deletion of exons 7-16 of the Pomgnt1 gene; and the Large(myd) mouse, which carries a deletion of exons 5-7 of the Large gene. We show a rostrocaudal and mediolateral gradient in the severity of brain lesions in FKRP(KD) , and to a lesser extent Pomgnt1null mice. Furthermore, the mislocalization of Cajal-Retzius cells is correlated with the gradient of these lesions and the severity of the brain phenotype in these models. Overall these observations implicate gene-specific differences in the pathogenesis of brain lesions in this group of disorders.
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- Helen S Booler
- Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, London, UK
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- Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, London, UK
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- Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, London, UK
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- Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, London, UK
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The secondary α-dystroglycanopathies usually present in infancy as congenital muscular dystrophies but may manifest later in childhood or adult life (limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) 2I, LGMD2K, LGMD2M, LGMD2N, and LGMD2O). Patients with telethoninopathy (LGMD2B) may present with mainly proximal or distal lower extremity weakness, and notably the muscle biopsies may demonstrate rimmed vacuoles. LGMD2L is caused by newly described mutations in ANO5 and can sometimes present with distal weakness resembling Miyoshi myopathy.
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Yoshioka M. Phenotypic spectrum of Fukutinopathy: most severe phenotype of Fukutinopathy. Brain Dev 2009; 31:419-22. [PMID: 18834683 DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2008.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2008] [Revised: 07/30/2008] [Accepted: 07/30/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Fukuyama-type congenital muscular dystrophy (FCMD), Walker-Warburg syndrome (WWS), and muscle-eye-brain (MEB) disease are clinically similar autosomal recessive disorders characterized by congenital muscular dystrophy, cobblestone lissencephaly, and eye anomalies. Among them, WWS is the most severe syndrome. Causative genes for FCMD (Fukutin), WWS (POMT1), and MEB (POMGnT1) have been identified. The vast majority of Japanese FCMD patients carry at least one copy of an ancestral founder insertion mutation. Patients homozygous for this insertion show a milder phenotype than do compound heterozygotes, carrying the insertion in combination with a missense or nonsense mutation on the other allele. No Japanese FCMD patients have been identified with nonfounder mutations on both alleles. A Turkish boy with characteristics of WWS was detected to have a homozygous nonsense mutation in exon 5 of Fukutin. This is the first case worldwide in which a Fukutin mutation has been found outside the Japanese population. Later, another Turkish boy with WWS phenotype was found to have a homozygous nonsense mutation in exon 4 of Fukutin. These two Turkish boys represent the most severe end of the phenotypic spectrum of Fukutin mutations. The Japanese FCMD patients carrying at least one copy of a founder mutation in the noncoding region may produce a lower level of mature Fukutin than normal and generate a relatively mild FCMD phenotype. The homozygous nonsense mutations within the coding region identified in Turkish patients are predicted to cause a total loss of fukutin activity and are likely to produce a more severe phenotype which closely resembles WWS.
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- Mieko Yoshioka
- Department of Pediatric Neurology, Kobe City Pediatric and General Rehabilitation Center for the Challenged, 2-3-50 Maruyama-cho, Nagata-ku, Kobe, Japan.
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Walker-Warburg syndrome (WWS) is the most severe of a group of multiple congenital anomaly disorders known as the cobblestone lissencephalies. These are characterized by congenital muscular dystrophy in conjunction with severe brain malformation and ocular abnormalities. In the last 3 years, important progress has been made towards the elucidation of the genetic causes of these disorders. Mutations in three genes, POMT1, fukutin and FKRP, have been described for WWS, which together account for approximately 20% of patients with Walker-Warburg. It has become evident that some of the underlying genes may cause a broad spectrum of phenotypes, ranging from limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2I to WWS. In some cases, a genotype-phenotype correlation can be recognized. In line with the known or proposed functions of the resolved genes, all patients with cobblestone lissencephaly show defects in the O-linked glycosylation of the glycoprotein alpha-dystroglycan. Perhaps, the missing genes underlying the remainder of the unexplained WWS patients have also to be sought in the pathways involved in O-linked protein glycosylation.
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- J van Reeuwijk
- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical center, The Netherlands
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Clark GD. GENETICS OF HUMAN BRAIN MALFORMATIONS. Continuum (Minneap Minn) 2005. [DOI: 10.1212/01.con.0000293703.31088.44] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Clark GD. The classification of cortical dysplasias through molecular genetics. Brain Dev 2004; 26:351-62. [PMID: 15275695 DOI: 10.1016/s0387-7604(03)00093-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2002] [Revised: 12/02/2002] [Accepted: 12/25/2002] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Recent genetic insight into the mechanisms of human brain malformation have allowed one to consider a classification of these disorders by the genetic disruption. In this article an attempt is made to classify human cortical dysplasias by the known genetic disruptions or insults that lead to them. The discussion of malformation is within the context of the embryologic processes that have thought to have gone awry. Human disorders of segmentation, cell proliferation, telencephalic cleavage, differentiation, and neuronal migration are discussed. As this is a rapidly changing area, the reader is encouraged to check online databases for updates on the genetic insights that have been gained since the publication of this article.
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- Gary D Clark
- Departments of Pediatrics, Neurology, and Neuroscience, Cain Foundation Laboratories, Baylor College of Medicine, MC 3-6365, 6621 Fannin Street, Houston, TX 77030-2399, USA.
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The congenital myopathies and congenital muscular dystrophies are a group of relatively infrequent neuromuscular disorders. Ultimate understanding of these disorders, however, will undoubtedly shed considerable light on skeletal muscle development and function. Three classical congenital myopathies are central core disease, nemaline myopathy, and centronuclear myopathy. The congenital muscular dystrophies are often distinguished by whether or not they are associated with clinically evident cerebral involvement.
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- Jack E Riggs
- Department of Neurology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, One Medical Center Drive, Room G-103, Box 9180, Morgantown, WV 26506-9180, USA.
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Grewal PK, Hewitt JE. Glycosylation defects: a new mechanism for muscular dystrophy? Hum Mol Genet 2003; 12 Spec No 2:R259-64. [PMID: 12925572 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddg272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Recently, post-translational modification of proteins has been defined as a new area of focus for muscular dystrophy research by the identification of a group of disease genes that encode known or putative glycosylation enzymes. Walker-Warburg Syndrome (WWS) and muscle-eye-brain disease (MEB) are caused by mutations in two genes involved in O-mannosylation, POMT1 and POMGnT1, respectively. Fukuyama muscular dystrophy (FCMD) is due to mutations in fukutin, a putative phospholigand transferase. Congenital muscular dystrophy type 1C and limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2I are allelic, both being due to mutations in the gene-encoding fukutin-related protein (FKRP). Finally, the causative gene in the myodystrophy (myd) mouse is a putative bifunctional glycosyltransferase (Large). WWS, MEB, FCMD and the myd mouse are also associated with neuronal migration abnormalities (often type II lissencephaly) and ocular or retinal defects. A deficiency in post-translational modification of alpha-dystroglycan is a common feature of all these muscular dystrophies and is thought to involve O-glycosylation pathways. This abnormally modified alpha-dystroglycan is deficient in binding to extracellular matrix ligands, including laminin and agrin. Selective deletion of dystroglycan in the central nervous system (CNS) produces brain abnormalities with striking similarities to WWS, MEB, FCMD and the myd mouse. Thus, impaired dystroglycan function is strongly implicated in these diseases. However, it is unlikely that these five glycosylation enzymes only have a role in glycosylation of alpha-dystroglycan and it is important that other protein targets are identified.
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- Prabhjit K Grewal
- Institute of Genetics, Queen's Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
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PURPOSE To report our retrospective study of 20 cases with lissencephaly and describe ocular and visual abnormalities associated with this disorder. METHODS Patients with lissencephaly were identified and classified into classic (type I) or cobblestone (type 2) lissencephaly on the basis of a review of clinical records and neuroimaging studies. Only patients examined by an ophthalmologist were included in the study. RESULTS Only 1 patient had a normal ocular examination. Ocular abnormalities included optic nerve hypoplasia and atrophy, retinal dysplasia, retinal nonattachment, macular hypoplasia, anterior segment malformation, and strabismus. CONCLUSIONS Ocular abnormalities in classic (type 1) lissencephaly are less severe. Central, steady, and maintained fixation may be present despite the presence of optic nerve hypoplasia, optic atrophy, macular hypoplasia, strabismus, or refractive errors. Retinal and anterior segment abnormalities were observed only in cobblestone (type 2) lissencephaly. These patients often have severe visual impairment because of retinal or cortical disease.
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- Naeem U Nabi
- Department of Ophthalmology, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada
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Electrodiagnostic studies are an important adjunct to the clinical examination of a patient with a suspected myopathy; however, the clinical examination is crucial in making an accurate diagnosis, because electrodiagnostic studies have only a limited role in delineating with certainty the underlying myopathic disorder. Hereditary and acquired myopathies are reviewed in this article, with particular emphasis on distinguishing clinical and electrodiagnostic features. The hereditary myopathies that are discussed include the muscular dystrophies and the congenital distal mitochondrial, and metabolic myopathies. Acquired myopathies, including inflammatory, endocrine, and toxic myopathies, as well as those associated with systemic illness, are briefly reviewed.
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- Jayashri Srinivasan
- Department of Neurology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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The progress made in the understanding of the genetics of human brain malformations has lead to insight into the formation of brain and into mechanisms of disease affecting brain. It bears upon neurologists and geneticists to recognize the patterns of diseases of brain formation, to properly diagnose such disorders, to assess the recurrence risk of these malformations, and to guide families with appropriate expectations for outcomes. This article may serve as a guide to neurologists in their approach to these disorders. Because this area is one of rapid progress, the clinician is advised to seek more current information that may be available through on-line databases and other sources.
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- Gary D Clark
- Departments of Pediatrics, Neurology, and Neuroscience, Cain Foundation Laboratories, 6621 Fannin Street, MC 3-6365, Houston, TX 77030-2399, USA.
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Hino N, Kobayashi M, Shibata N, Yamamoto T, Saito K, Osawa M. Clinicopathological study on eyes from cases of Fukuyama type congenital muscular dystrophy. Brain Dev 2001; 23:97-107. [PMID: 11248458 DOI: 10.1016/s0387-7604(01)00189-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Fukuyama type congenital muscular dystrophy (FCMD) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by progressive muscular dystrophy and dysgenesis of the central nervous system and eyes. To clarify the pathomechanism of the ocular involvement in FCMD, we performed postmortem pathological analyses of eyes from three postnatal FCMD cases, two fetal FCMD cases, and three control cases by macroscopic, histopathological, immunohistochemical and in situ hybridization approaches. The macroscopic and histopathological examinations revealed a variety of ocular abnormalities such as folding, fusion or dysplasia of the retinas in the FCMD cases both with and without ophthalmological alterations. Immunoreactivities for collagen IV and laminin, produced by Müller cells, as the basement membrane components, were less intense in the inner limiting membrane of the FCMD retinas than in that of the control retinas. A number of the perivascular glial cells containing S-100 protein and glial fibrillary acidic protein were increased in the postnatal FCMD cases. Immunoreactivities for vimentin, glutamate transporter-1, glutamine synthase and ornithine aminotransferase, expressed in the Müller cells, were undetectable in the fetal FCMD retinas, and reduced in the postnatal FCMD retinas compared with the control retinas. Fukutin mRNA signals were distributed diffusely in the retinoblast layer of the control retinas, focally in the retinoblast layer of the fetal FCMD retinas, and only in the dysplastic areas with rosette formation of the postnatal FCMD retinas, composed of retinoblasts and other retinal cells including the Müller cells. The present findings suggest that the Müller cells are implicated in the retinal pathology of FCMD.
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- N Hino
- Department of Pediatrics, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Kawada-cho 8-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8666, Japan.
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The muscular dystrophies (MD) are a heterogenous group of genetically determined, variably inherited primary disorders of muscle that progress differently. The various forms can be distinguished by the combination of clinical, genetic and pathologic criteria, confirmation of the muscle biopsy should be with immunohistochemical staining rather than histological only. These and the gene deletion studies in the families have become essential diagnostic criteria.
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- V Kalra
- Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
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Chadani Y, Kondoh T, Kamimura N, Matsumoto T, Matsuzaka T, Kobayashi O, Kondo-Iida E, Kobayashi K, Nonaka I, Toda T. Walker-Warburg syndrome is genetically distinct from Fukuyama type congenital muscular dystrophy. J Neurol Sci 2000; 177:150-3. [PMID: 10980312 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-510x(00)00328-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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A female patient who fulfilled the diagnostic criteria of Walker-Warburg syndrome had muscle biopsy finding of muscular dystrophy. There was normal expression of merosin (laminin alpha2 chain) and dystrophin and only slightly reduced dystrophin-associated glycoprotein expression. On genetic analysis, she had no specific haplotype, the common mutation of 3kb insertion, or point mutations in the Fukuyama-type congenital muscular dystrophy gene, suggesting that the two diseases are not genetically identical.
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- Y Chadani
- Department of Pediatrics, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Nagasaki, Japan.
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Toda T, Kobayashi K, Kondo-Iida E, Sasaki J, Nakamura Y. The Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy story. Neuromuscul Disord 2000; 10:153-9. [PMID: 10734260 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-8966(99)00109-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy is one of the most common autosomal recessive disorders in the Japanese population, characterized by congenital muscular dystrophy in combination with cortical dysgenesis (micropolygyria). Recently, we have identified the gene responsible for fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy on 9q31, which encodes a novel 461-amino-acid protein termed fukutin. Most Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy-bearing chromosomes are derived from a single ancestral founder (87%), and a 3 kb-retrotransposal insertion into the 3' untranslated region of this gene was found to be a founder mutation. Two independent point mutations causing premature termination confirmed that that this gene is responsible for Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy. Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy is the first human disease to be caused by an ancient retrotransposal integration. Fukutin contains an amino-terminal signal sequence, which together with results from transfection experiments suggests that it is an extracellular protein. Discovery of the Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy gene represents an important step toward greater understanding of the pathogenesis of muscular dystrophies and also of normal brain development.
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- T Toda
- Laboratory of Genome Medicine, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
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Yoshioka M, Toda T, Kuroki S, Hamano K. Broader clinical spectrum of Fukuyama-type congenital muscular dystrophy manifested by haplotype analysis. J Child Neurol 1999; 14:711-5. [PMID: 10593547 DOI: 10.1177/088307389901401105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Fukuyama-type congenital muscular dystrophy, Walker-Warburg syndrome, and muscle-eye-brain disease are clinically similar autosomal-recessive diseases, characterized by congenital muscular dystrophy, cobblestone lissencephaly, and eye anomalies. The classification of these disorders remains controversial. We analyzed five patients with congenital muscular dystrophy from four families who had severe eye and brain anomalies, such as retinal dysplasia and hydrocephalus, using polymorphic microsatellite markers flanking the Fukuyama-type congenital muscular dystrophy locus on chromosome 9q31. All patients were heterozygous for the Fukuyama muscular dystrophy founder haplotype with 3-kb insertion. In three cases, the other chromosome without the 3-kb insertion exhibited the same haplotype with a nonsense mutation on exon 3 of the Fukuyama gene. Thus, these three patients were compound heterozygotes for the condition. Severe eye anomalies such as retinal dysplasia or detachment and hydrocephalus could be included in the clinical spectrum of Fukuyama muscular dystrophy. The clinical spectrum of this disease is much broader than previously presumed.
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- M Yoshioka
- Department of Pediatrics, Kobe General Hospital, Japan.
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Vasconcelos MM, Guedes CR, Domingues RC, Vianna RN, Sotero M, Vieira MM. Walker-Warburg syndrome. Report of two cases. ARQUIVOS DE NEURO-PSIQUIATRIA 1999; 57:672-7. [PMID: 10667295 DOI: 10.1590/s0004-282x1999000400022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The purpose of this study is to describe two infants that were diagnosed with Walker-Warburg syndrome (WWS), a rare form of congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD). They were studied in their clinical, laboratory, and neuroradiologic features. The index case had a brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and the second patient had a head computerized tomography (CT). In addition, a literature review was performed to describe the main forms of CMD. The index case fulfilled all criteria for WWS. A brain MRI performed at age 4 months served to corroborate the clinical diagnosis, showing severe hydrocephalus, type II lissencephaly, cerebellar vermian aplasia, and a hypoplastic brain stem. The authors were able to establish a retrospective diagnosis of WWS in the index case's older sister, based upon her clinical picture and head CT report.
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- M M Vasconcelos
- Hospital Universitário Antônio Pedro, Universidade Federal Fluminense (HUAP-UFF).
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ter Laak HJ, Leyten QH, Gabreëls FJ, Kuppen H, Renier WO, Sengers RC. Laminin-alpha2 (merosin), beta-dystroglycan, alpha-sarcoglycan (adhalin), and dystrophin expression in congenital muscular dystrophies: an immunohistochemical study. Clin Neurol Neurosurg 1998; 100:5-10. [PMID: 9637197 DOI: 10.1016/s0303-8467(97)00109-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Muscle biopsies of 13 congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD) patients were investigated for the expression of laminin-alpha2 (merosin), beta-dystroglycan, alpha-sarcoglycan (adhalin) and dystrophin. Expression of these proteins was normal in six out of eight patients with pure-CMD, in three non-Japanese patients clinically resembling Fukuyama-CMD (F-CMD), and in two patients with Walker-Warburg syndrome (WWS). The two 'pure'-CMD patients with white matter hypodensity showed severely decreased laminin-alpha2 expression and normal expression of the other proteins. Our findings in the non-Japanese patients, clinically resembling F-CMD, are different from those in Japanese cases with F-CMD in the literature. Consequently, our patients suffer from WWS or from another yet undetermined form of CMD.
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- H J ter Laak
- Institute of Neurology, University Hospital Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Kanoff RJ, Curless RG, Petito C, Falcone S, Siatkowski RM, Pegoraro E. Walker-Warburg syndrome: neurologic features and muscle membrane structure. Pediatr Neurol 1998; 18:76-80. [PMID: 9492098 DOI: 10.1016/s0887-8994(97)00137-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Walker-Warburg syndrome is an autosomal-recessive genetic disorder characterized by congenital muscular dystrophy in association with complex developmental abnormalities of the central nervous system and the eyes. Two patients with Walker-Warburg syndrome are presented to demonstrate clinical variability. Previously unreported pathologic findings involving heart, muscle, spinal cord, and gall bladder are described, and the literature is reviewed. Histopathologic studies of the muscle membrane protein network in both Walker-Warburg syndrome patients reveal a decreased immunostaining for laminin alpha2 and beta-dystroglycan. The clinical, histologic, and biochemical variability in Walker-Warburg patients may reflect heterogeneity.
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- R J Kanoff
- Department of Neurology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida 33101, USA
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van der Knaap MS, Smit LM, Barth PG, Catsman-Berrevoets CE, Brouwer OF, Begeer JH, de Coo IF, Valk J. Magnetic resonance imaging in classification of congenital muscular dystrophies with brain abnormalities. Ann Neurol 1997; 42:50-9. [PMID: 9225685 DOI: 10.1002/ana.410420110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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A survey was performed of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings in 21 patients with congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD) with cerebral abnormalities to evaluate the contribution of MRI to the classification of CMD patients. In 5 patients with Walker-Warburg syndrome (WWS), MRI showed hydrocephalus due to aqueduct stenosis, generalized cerebral cortical agyric or pachygyric polymicrogyria, diffuse cerebral hemispheric white matter abnormalities, and malformations of posterior fossa structures. In 4 patients with muscle-eye-brain disease, MRI showed cortical dysplasia, but less severe than in WWS. The cerebral white matter either was normal or contained multiple focal abnormalities. Malformations of posterior fossa structures were present. Eight patients, classified as having classic merosin-deficient CMD (MD-CMD), had diffuse cerebral hemispheric white matter abnormalities, no other abnormalities. One patient with MD-CMD had only a few, focal white matter abnormalities. Three CMD patients had occipital agyria, otherwise normal gyration, multifocal or more diffuse cerebral white matter changes, and variable hypoplasia of pons and vermis. Two of the 3 patients had negative muscle merosin staining. The conclusion of the study is that MRI is an important adjunct in the classification of CMD patients. CMD with occipital agyria can be regarded as a newly recognized, separate CMD subtype.
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- M S van der Knaap
- Department of Child Neurology, Free University Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Clark BJ, Lee WR, Doyle D, Arngrimsson R, Tolmie JL, Stephenson JB. A novel pattern of oculocerebral malformation. Br J Ophthalmol 1997; 81:470-5. [PMID: 9274411 PMCID: PMC1722231 DOI: 10.1136/bjo.81.6.470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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AIMS/BACKGROUND To report a novel pattern of oculocerebral malformation related to the group of diseases characterised by cobblestone lissencephaly. METHODS By means of a case report with specialist descriptions of the novel neuropathological and ophthalmic pathology features. RESULTS The patient, born to healthy consanguineous parents, presented in the neonatal period with jaundice, convulsions, and macrocephaly. Computed tomography demonstrated hydrocephalus and abnormal cerebral gyration. Ophthalmic examination revealed severe myopia and segments of retinal atrophy. Cytogenetic investigation revealed a balanced reciprocal translocation (46,XX,t(5p11;19q13.1)) that was inherited from the mother and was present in several normal relatives. Mild short stature and profound mental handicap were evident. The child died aged 7 years. At necropsy the brain showed 'cobblestone' (type II) lissencephaly. Cerebellar cortical architecture was abnormal and the brain stem lacked cerebral peduncles, basis pontis, and pyramids. Biopsies of skeletal muscles were normal. The ocular abnormalities included discrete sectors of retina of varying thickness with disordered neuronal lamination and gliosis. The optic nerve was gliotic and contained few nerve fibres. The anterior iris surface was studded with cellular stromal nodules which appear to be melanocytic in nature. CONCLUSION Retinal dysgenesis occurs in the group of syndromes with 'cobblestone lissencephaly', the best known being Walker-Warburg syndrome. In this case, relatively long survival, lack of muscular dystrophy, and novel ocular pathology distinguish it from the other diagnoses in this group of syndromes. We suggest this child was affected by a distinct and novel oculocerebral syndrome.
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- B J Clark
- Pathology Department, Western Infirmary, Glasgow
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Nashef L, Lake BD, Schapira AH. Congenital muscular dystrophy with severe retrocollis and mental retardation: a report of two siblings. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1997; 62:279-81. [PMID: 9069486 PMCID: PMC1064160 DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.62.3.279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Two siblings with a congenital muscular dystrophy and severe mental retardation which was not due to dystrophin, merosin, or adhalin deficiency are described. These cases overlap with congenital muscular dystrophy of the Fukuyama-type but are less severe. Atypical features include limited facial involvement, retained ambulation, and severe retrocollis.
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- L Nashef
- Kent and Canterbury Hospital, Department of Neurology, London, UK
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Haltia M, Leivo I, Somer H, Pihko H, Paetau A, Kivelä T, Tarkkanen A, Tomé F, Engvall E, Santavuori P. Muscle-eye-brain disease: a neuropathological study. Ann Neurol 1997; 41:173-80. [PMID: 9029066 DOI: 10.1002/ana.410410208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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A combination of congenital central nervous, ocular and muscular abnormalities is characteristic of muscle-eye-brain disease (MEB), of Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy (FCMD), and of Walker-Warburg syndrome (WWS). The nosological relationship of these inherited malformative disorders is still unestablished, although the genetic locus for FCMD has been excluded in MEB. We present the first postmortem neuropathological study of MEB based on 2 male patients. Apart from sharply limited occipital agyric areas, their brains showed coarse gyri with an abnormally nodular surface ("cobblestone cortex"). Both the cerebral and cerebellar cortices showed a total disorganization without horizontal lamination. The haphazardly oriented cortical neurons formed irregular clusters or islands, separated by gliovascular strands extending from the pia. The ocular abnormalities included a pronounced glial preretinal membrane. Although MEB shares the cobblestone cortex-type malformation with FCMD and WWS, the cerebral and ocular manifestations are less severe than in WWS. Furthermore, a consistently weak staining for laminin alpha2 chain (merosin) was found in muscle biopsy specimens from 4 MEB patients, while normal immunoreactivity was observed for the laminin beta2 chain, reported to be severely deficient in WWS. These findings support nosological independence of MEB.
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- M Haltia
- Department of Pathology, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Leyten QH, Gabreëls FJ, Renier WO, ter Laak HJ. Congenital muscular dystrophy: a review of the literature. Clin Neurol Neurosurg 1996; 98:267-80. [PMID: 8930416 DOI: 10.1016/0303-8467(96)00043-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD) is a condition in which there are already at birth, marked hypotonia, generalized muscle weakness and frequently multiple contractures. CMD has recently been classified into four categories: CMD I, the classical or "pure' CMD without severe impairment of intellectual development; CMD II, the Fukuyama type CMD with muscle and structural brain abnormalities; CMD III and IV with muscle, eye and brain abnormalities; the milder Finnish type CMD (CMD III) and the severe Walker-Warburg syndrome (CMD IV). Data of the literature concerning those different CMD types have been reviewed and are presented with emphasis on signs and symptoms, clinical course, laboratory, neurophysiological, radiological, morphological and genetic characteristics.
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- Q H Leyten
- Department of Neurology, Rijnstate Hospital, Arnhem, Netherlands
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Sweet HO, Bronson RT, Johnson KR, Cook SA, Davisson MT. Scrambler, a new neurological mutation of the mouse with abnormalities of neuronal migration. Mamm Genome 1996; 7:798-802. [PMID: 8875886 DOI: 10.1007/s003359900240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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A novel spontaneous neurological mutation, scrambler (scm), appeared in the inbred mouse strain DC/Le (dancer) in 1991. Mice homozygous for this recessive mutation are recognized by an unstable gait and whole-body tremor. The cerebella of 30-day-old scrambler homozygotes are hypoplastic and devoid of folia; however, neither seizures nor abnormal brain wave patterns have been observed. Homozygous scrambler mutants have an ataxic gait which in the male may be a contributory factor in the failure to mate. Female homozygotes mate and breed. Life span is not reduced in either sex. Scrambler is similar to the reeler mutation in phenotype and pathology and, like reeler, probably results from defective neuronal migration. We mapped the scrambler mutation to Chromosome (Chr) 4, proving that it is distinct from the recently cloned reeler gene on Chr 5. We also determined the map position of the agrin gene, Agrn, on Chr 4, and on this basis eliminated it as a candidate for scm. Currently there is no known homology of scrambler with human lissencephalies or other human disorders caused by abnormal neuronal migration.
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- H O Sweet
- The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609, USA
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De Stefano N, Dotti MT, Villanova M, Scarano G, Federico A. Merosin positive congenital muscular dystrophy with severe involvement of the central nervous system. Brain Dev 1996; 18:323-6. [PMID: 8879654 DOI: 10.1016/0387-7604(96)00029-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD) is one of the most frequent dystrophies of childhood, which is commonly characterized by neonatal muscle impairment with or without clinical evidence of central nervous system involvement. Several variants of CMD have been described and the disease has recently been classified into five clinically distinct forms: the two classical CMDs with and without deficit of the laminin M chain (merosin), the Fukuyama CMD described in Japanese patients and recently linked to the chromosome 9q31-33, the clinically more severe Walker-Warburg syndrome and the rare muscle-eye-brain disease described in Finnish patients. The most of these forms have central nervous system involvement. This is usually not seen in the classical merosin positive CMD, but can be very severe in the others. Here we describe a 3-year-old Mediterranean child with clinical and histopathological signs of CMD, normal expression of merosin, severe clinical and radiological evidence of central nervous system involvement without defects of neuronal migration or brain malformations and without ocular anomalies. This report suggests that new forms of CMD and cerebral involvement can still be recognized and confirms the heterogeneity of this group of infantile diseases.
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- N De Stefano
- Institute of Neurological Sciences, University of Siena, Italy
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- D T Pilz
- Institute of Medical Genetics, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, UK
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- F L Mastaglia
- Australian Neuromuscular Research Institute, Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre, Perth, Western Australia
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Topaloğlu H, Cila A, Taşdemir AH, Saatçi I. Congenital muscular dystrophy with eye and brain involvement. The Turkish experience in two cases. Brain Dev 1995; 17:271-5. [PMID: 7503390 DOI: 10.1016/0387-7604(95)00047-f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Eye and brain involvement in congenital muscular dystrophies (CMD) constitute a distinct group with a spectrum of brain malformations. We report two such CMD patients among our series of 58 cases with CMD. Despite known clinical and neuroradiological overlap, we tend to classify them into specific syndromes, though this may not be accurate. Molecular genetic studies hopefully will be the answer. Our cases are the continuum of increasingly reported CMD cases with severe brain manifestations, which come from the area geographically far away from those of original descriptions.
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- H Topaloğlu
- Department of Child Neurology, Hacettepe Children's Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
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