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Knight KAW, Barbour-Hastie C, Gane A, O'Riordan J. Novel genetic variant in hereditary spastic paraparesis. BMJ Case Rep 2024; 17:e252396. [PMID: 38631813 PMCID: PMC11029313 DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2022-252396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/19/2024] Open
Abstract
A man in his 30s was referred to neurology with right-sided paraesthesia, tremors, chest pain and lower urinary tract and erectile dysfunction. He had a medical history of left acetabular dysplasia, and subjective memory impairment, the latter being in the context of depression and chronic pain with opioid use. There was no notable family history. On examination, he had a spastic paraparesis. Imaging revealed atrophy of the thoracic spine. Lumbar puncture demonstrated a raised protein but other constituents were normal, including no presence of oligoclonal bands. Genetic testing revealed a novel heterozygous likely pathogenic SPAST variant c. 1643A>T p.(Asp548Val), confirming the diagnosis of hereditary spastic paraparesis. Symptomatic treatment with physiotherapy and antispasmodic therapy was initiated. This is the first study reporting a patient with this SPAST variant. Ensembl variant effect predictor was used, with the application of computational variant prediction tools providing support that the variant we have identified is likely deleterious and damaging. Our variant CADD score was high, indicating that our identified variant was a highly deleterious substitution.
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- Kathryn A W Knight
- Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
- Department of Neurology, NHS Tayside, Dundee, UK
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- The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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Chai E, Chen Z, Mou Y, Thakur G, Zhan W, Li XJ. Liver-X-receptor agonists rescue axonal degeneration in SPG11-deficient neurons via regulating cholesterol trafficking. Neurobiol Dis 2023; 187:106293. [PMID: 37709208 PMCID: PMC10655618 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2023.106293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2022] [Revised: 07/22/2023] [Accepted: 09/12/2023] [Indexed: 09/16/2023] Open
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Spastic paraplegia type 11 (SPG11) is a common autosomal recessive form of hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) characterized by the degeneration of cortical motor neuron axons, leading to muscle spasticity and weakness. Impaired lipid trafficking is an emerging pathology in neurodegenerative diseases including SPG11, though its role in axonal degeneration of human SPG11 neurons remains unknown. Here, we established a pluripotent stem cell-based SPG11 model by knocking down the SPG11 gene in human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). These stem cells were then differentiated into cortical projection neurons (PNs), the cell types affected in HSP patients, to examine axonal defects and cholesterol distributions. Our data revealed that SPG11 deficiency led to reduced axonal outgrowth, impaired axonal transport, and accumulated swellings, recapitulating disease-specific phenotypes. In SPG11-knockdown neurons, cholesterol was accumulated in lysosome and reduced in plasma membrane, revealing impairments in cholesterol trafficking. Strikingly, the liver-X-receptor (LXR) agonists restored cholesterol homeostasis, leading to the rescue of subsequent axonal defects in SPG11-deficient cortical PNs. To further determine the implication of impaired cholesterol homeostasis in SPG11, we examined the cholesterol distribution in cortical PNs generated from SPG11 disease-mutation knock-in hESCs, and observed a similar cholesterol trafficking impairment. Moreover, LXR agonists rescued the aberrant cholesterol distribution and mitigated the degeneration of SPG11 disease-mutated neurons. Taken together, our data demonstrate impaired cholesterol trafficking underlying axonal degeneration of SPG11 human neurons, and highlight the therapeutic potential of LXR agonists for SPG11 through restoring cholesterol homeostasis.
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- Eric Chai
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford, Rockford, IL 61107, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford, Rockford, IL 61107, USA.; Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford, Rockford, IL 61107, USA.; Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford, Rockford, IL 61107, USA
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- Office of Research, University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford, Rockford, IL 61107, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford, Rockford, IL 61107, USA.; Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA..
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Oliveira R, Maruta C, Gil-Gouveia R. A novel KIF5a mutation identified in two-family members with spastic paraplegia type 10. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2020; 177:152-154. [PMID: 33272564 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2020.04.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2020] [Revised: 04/25/2020] [Accepted: 04/27/2020] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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- R Oliveira
- Neurology Department, Hospital da Luz, Avenida Lusíada 100, 1500-650 Lisbon, Portugal.
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- Laboratory of Language Research, Centro de Estudos Egas Moniz, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, 1500-650 Lisbon, Portugal; Católica Research Center for Psychological, Family and Social Wellbeing (CRC-W), Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 1500-650 Lisbon, Portugal
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- Neurology Department, Hospital da Luz, Avenida Lusíada 100, 1500-650 Lisbon, Portugal
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Mustafa MI, Murshed NS, Abdelmoneim AH, Abdelmageed MI, Elfadol NM, Makhawi AM. Extensive In Silico Analysis of ATL1 Gene : Discovered Five Mutations That May Cause Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia Type 3A. SCIENTIFICA 2020; 2020:8329286. [PMID: 32322428 PMCID: PMC7140133 DOI: 10.1155/2020/8329286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2019] [Revised: 01/31/2020] [Accepted: 02/21/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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BACKGROUND Hereditary spastic paraplegia type 3A (SPG3A) is a neurodegenerative disease inherited type of Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP). It is the second most frequent type of HSP which is characterized by progressive bilateral and mostly symmetric spasticity and weakness of the legs. SPG3A gene mutations and the phenotype-genotype correlations have not yet been recognized. The aim of this work was to categorize the most damaging SNPs in ATL1 gene and to predict their impact on the functional and structural levels by several computational analysis tools. METHODS The raw data of ATL1 gene were retrieved from dbSNP database and then run into numerous computational analysis tools. Additionally; we submitted the common six deleterious outcomes from the previous functional analysis tools to I-mutant 3.0 and MUPro, respectively, to investigate their effect on the structural level. The 3D structure of ATL1 was predicted by RaptorX and modeled using UCSF Chimera to compare the differences between the native and the mutant amino acids. RESULTS Five nsSNPs out of 249 were classified as the most deleterious (rs746927118, rs979765709, rs119476049, rs864622269, and rs1242753115). CONCLUSIONS In this study, the impact of nsSNPs in the ATL1 gene was investigated by various in silico tools that revealed five nsSNPs (V67F, T120I, R217Q, R495W, and G504E) are deleterious SNPs, which have a functional impact on ATL1 protein and, therefore, can be used as genomic biomarkers specifically before 4 years of age; also, it may play a key role in pharmacogenomics by evaluating drug response for this disabling disease.
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- Department of Microbiology, International University of Africa, Khartoum, Sudan
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- Department of Microbiology, National Ribat University, Khartoum, Sudan
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De la Casa-Fages B, Fernández-Eulate G, Gamez J, Barahona-Hernando R, Morís G, García-Barcina M, Infante J, Zulaica M, Fernández-Pelayo U, Muñoz-Oreja M, Urtasun M, Olaskoaga A, Zelaya V, Jericó I, Saez-Villaverde R, Catalina I, Sola E, Martínez-Sáez E, Pujol A, Ruiz M, Schlüter A, Spinazzola A, Muñoz-Blanco JL, Grandas F, Holt I, Álvarez V, López de Munaín A. Parkinsonism and spastic paraplegia type 7: Expanding the spectrum of mitochondrial Parkinsonism. Mov Disord 2019; 34:1547-1561. [PMID: 31433872 DOI: 10.1002/mds.27812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2019] [Revised: 07/02/2019] [Accepted: 07/14/2019] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Pathogenic variants in the spastic paraplegia type 7 gene cause a complicated hereditary spastic paraplegia phenotype associated with classical features of mitochondrial diseases, including ataxia, progressive external ophthalmoplegia, and deletions of mitochondrial DNA. OBJECTIVES To better characterize spastic paraplegia type 7 disease with a clinical, genetic, and functional analysis of a Spanish cohort of spastic paraplegia type 7 patients. METHODS Genetic analysis was performed in patients suspecting hereditary spastic paraplegia and in 1 patient with parkinsonism and Pisa syndrome, through next-generation sequencing, whole-exome sequencing, targeted Sanger sequencing, and multiplex ligation-dependent probe analysis, and blood mitochondrial DNA levels determined by quantitative polymerase chain reaction. RESULTS Thirty-five patients were found to carry homozygous or compound heterozygous pathogenic variants in the spastic paraplegia type 7 gene. Mean age at onset was 40 years (range, 12-63); 63% of spastic paraplegia type 7 patients were male, and three-quarters of all patients had at least one allele with the c.1529C>T (p.Ala510Val) mutation. Eighty percent of the cohort showed a complicated phenotype, combining ataxia and progressive external ophthalmoplegia (65% and 26%, respectively). Parkinsonism was observed in 21% of cases. Analysis of blood mitochondrial DNA indicated that both patients and carriers of spastic paraplegia type 7 pathogenic variants had markedly lower levels of mitochondrial DNA than control subjects (228 per haploid nuclear DNA vs. 176 vs. 573, respectively; P < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS Parkinsonism is a frequent finding in spastic paraplegia type 7 patients. Spastic paraplegia type 7 pathogenic variants impair mitochondrial DNA homeostasis irrespective of the number of mutant alleles, type of variant, and patient or carrier status. Thus, spastic paraplegia type 7 supports mitochondrial DNA maintenance, and variants in the gene may cause parkinsonism owing to mitochondrial DNA abnormalities. Moreover, mitochondrial DNA blood analysis could be a useful biomarker to detect at risk families. © 2019 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.
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- Beatriz De la Casa-Fages
- Department of Neurology, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain.,Movement Disorders Unit, National Referral Center for rare diseases with Movement Disorders (CSUR), Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain.,Neurosciences Area, Instituto Investigacion Sanitaria Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Neurology, Hospital Universitario Donostia, San Sebastian, Spain.,Department of Neurosciences, Instituto Biodonostia, San Sebastian, Spain
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- Department of Neurology, Hospital General Universitari Vall d'Hebron-UAB-VHIR, Barcelona, Spain.,European Reference Network on Rare Neurological Diseases (ERN-RND), Hospital General Universitari Vall d'Hebron-UAB, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Neurology, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain.,ALS-Neuromuscular Unit, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain.,Department of Neurology, Hospital Ruber Juan Bravo, Grupo Quironsalud, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria del Principado de Asturias (ISPA), Oviedo, Spain.,Department of Neurology, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain
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- Department of Neurology, Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla-IDIVAL, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Institute Carlos III, Spain
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- Department of Neurosciences, Instituto Biodonostia, San Sebastian, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Institute Carlos III, Spain
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- Department of Neurosciences, Instituto Biodonostia, San Sebastian, Spain
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- Department of Neurology, Hospital Universitario Donostia, San Sebastian, Spain
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- Department of Pathology, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
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- Department of Neurology, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
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- Department of Neurology, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain.,ALS-Neuromuscular Unit, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Pathology, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Pathology, Hospital General Universitari Vall d'Hebron-UAB-VHIR, Barcelona, Spain.,Department of Medicine, UAB, Barcelona, Spain
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- Neurometabolic Diseases Laboratory, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.,Catalan Institution of Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain.,Center for Biomedical Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Neurometabolic Diseases Laboratory, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.,Center for Biomedical Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Neurometabolic Diseases Laboratory, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.,Center for Biomedical Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Clinical Movement Neurosciences, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, Royal Free Campus, London, United Kingdom.,MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Neurology, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain.,Neurosciences Area, Instituto Investigacion Sanitaria Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain.,ALS-Neuromuscular Unit, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Neurology, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain.,Movement Disorders Unit, National Referral Center for rare diseases with Movement Disorders (CSUR), Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain.,Neurosciences Area, Instituto Investigacion Sanitaria Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Neurosciences, Instituto Biodonostia, San Sebastian, Spain.,IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria del Principado de Asturias (ISPA), Oviedo, Spain.,Genetics Laboratory, AGC Medicine Laboratory, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain
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- Department of Neurology, Hospital Universitario Donostia, San Sebastian, Spain.,Department of Neurosciences, Instituto Biodonostia, San Sebastian, Spain.,Department of Neurosciences UPV/EHU, San Sebastian, Spain.,Ciberned, Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, Madrid, Spain
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Özdemir TR, Gençpınar P, Arıcan P, Öztekin Ö, Dündar NO, Özyılmaz B. A case of spastic paraplegia-15 with a novel pathogenic variant in ZFYVE26 gene. Int J Neurosci 2019; 129:1198-1202. [PMID: 31385551 DOI: 10.1080/00207454.2019.1653293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
Abstract
Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a group of rare neurodegenerative disorder with genetic and clinical heterogeneity. It has autosomal dominant (AD), autosomal recessive (AR) and X-linked forms. HSPs are clinically classified into 'pure' and 'complicated' (complex) forms. SPG11 (KIAA1840) and SPG15 (ZFYVE26) are the most common ARHSPs with thin corpus callosum (TCC). They typically present with early cognitive impairment in childhood followed by gait impairment and spasticity in the second and third decades of life. Here, we present a patient girl, born to a couple who were first cousins, was admitted to the pediatric neurology outpatient clinic at 14 years of age because of walking with help, dysarthria and forgetfulness. Her examination revealed a motor mental retardation, bilateral leg spasticity, increased deep tendon reflexes in lower limbs, bilateral pigmentary retinopathy; TCC and white matter hyperintensities on brain MRI, sensorimotor axonal polyneuropathy findings in lower limbs on electromyography. Based on the clinical features and the imaging studies, the diagnosis of HSP was suspected. Targeted next generation sequencing (NGS) was performed using Inherited NGS Panel that consists of 579 gene associated with Mendelian disorders. Analysis of the patient revealed a c.6398_6401delGGGA(p.Arg2133Asnfs*15)(Exon35) homozygous novel change in ZFYVE26 gene. Genotype-phenotype correlation of HSP is complicated due to heterogeneity. The clinical similarity of HSP types increases the importance of genetic diagnosis. There are few reports about pathogenic variants in ZFYVE26 gene in the literature. This case report is one of the few studies that revealed a novel pathogenic variant in ZFYVE26 gene using NGS.
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- Taha Reşid Özdemir
- Genetic Diagnostic Center, Health Sciences University, Izmir Tepecik Training and Research Hospital , Izmir , Turkey
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- Department of Pediatric Neurology, Izmir Katip Celebi University , Izmir , Turkey
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- Department of Pediatric Neurology, Health Sciences University, Izmir Tepecik Training and Research Hospital , Izmir , Turkey
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- Department of Radiology, Health Sciences University, Izmir Tepecik Training and Research Hospital , Izmir , Turkey
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- Department of Pediatric Neurology, Izmir Katip Celebi University , Izmir , Turkey
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- Genetic Diagnostic Center, Health Sciences University, Izmir Tepecik Training and Research Hospital , Izmir , Turkey
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Kadnikova VA, Ryzhkova OP, Rudenskaya GE, Polyakov AV. Molecular Genetic Diversity and DNA Diagnostics of Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019. [DOI: 10.1134/s2079086419020063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Kara E, Tucci A, Manzoni C, Lynch DS, Elpidorou M, Bettencourt C, Chelban V, Manole A, Hamed SA, Haridy NA, Federoff M, Preza E, Hughes D, Pittman A, Jaunmuktane Z, Brandner S, Xiromerisiou G, Wiethoff S, Schottlaender L, Proukakis C, Morris H, Warner T, Bhatia KP, Korlipara LVP, Singleton AB, Hardy J, Wood NW, Lewis PA, Houlden H. Genetic and phenotypic characterization of complex hereditary spastic paraplegia. Brain 2016; 139:1904-18. [PMID: 27217339 PMCID: PMC4939695 DOI: 10.1093/brain/aww111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 156] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2015] [Accepted: 03/30/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
The hereditary spastic paraplegias are a heterogeneous group of degenerative disorders that are clinically classified as either pure with predominant lower limb spasticity, or complex where spastic paraplegia is complicated with additional neurological features, and are inherited in autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive or X-linked patterns. Genetic defects have been identified in over 40 different genes, with more than 70 loci in total. Complex recessive spastic paraplegias have in the past been frequently associated with mutations in
SPG11
(spatacsin),
ZFYVE26/SPG15
,
SPG7
(paraplegin) and a handful of other rare genes, but many cases remain genetically undefined. The overlap with other neurodegenerative disorders has been implied in a small number of reports, but not in larger disease series. This deficiency has been largely due to the lack of suitable high throughput techniques to investigate the genetic basis of disease, but the recent availability of next generation sequencing can facilitate the identification of disease-causing mutations even in extremely heterogeneous disorders. We investigated a series of 97 index cases with complex spastic paraplegia referred to a tertiary referral neurology centre in London for diagnosis or management. The mean age of onset was 16 years (range 3 to 39). The
SPG11
gene was first analysed, revealing homozygous or compound heterozygous mutations in 30/97 (30.9%) of probands, the largest
SPG11
series reported to date, and by far the most common cause of complex spastic paraplegia in the UK, with severe and progressive clinical features and other neurological manifestations, linked with magnetic resonance imaging defects. Given the high frequency of
SPG11
mutations, we studied the autophagic response to starvation in eight affected
SPG11
cases and control fibroblast cell lines, but in our restricted study we did not observe correlations between disease status and autophagic or lysosomal markers. In the remaining cases, next generation sequencing was carried out revealing variants in a number of other known complex spastic paraplegia genes, including five in
SPG7
(5/97), four in
FA2H
(also known as
SPG35
) (4/97) and two in
ZFYVE26
/
SPG15
. Variants were identified in genes usually associated with pure spastic paraplegia and also in the Parkinson’s disease-associated gene
ATP13A2
, neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis gene
TPP1
and the hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy
DNMT1
gene, highlighting the genetic heterogeneity of spastic paraplegia. No plausible genetic cause was identified in 51% of probands, likely indicating the existence of as yet unidentified genes.
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- Eleanna Kara
- 1 Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK 2 Alzheimer's Disease Research Centre, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, 114 16th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
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- 1 Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK 3 Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy
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- 1 Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK 4 School of Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AP, UK
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- 1 Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
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- 1 Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
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- 1 Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
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- 1 Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
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- 1 Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
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- 5 Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Assiut University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut, Egypt
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- 1 Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK 5 Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Assiut University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut, Egypt
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- 6 Laboratory of Neurogenetics, NIH/NIA, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- 1 Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
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- 1 Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
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- 1 Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
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- 7 Division of Neuropathology and Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
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- 7 Division of Neuropathology and Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
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- 1 Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK 8 Department of Neurology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- 1 Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
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- 1 Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
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- 9 Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Royal Free Campus, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK
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- 1 Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK 9 Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Royal Free Campus, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK
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- 1 Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK 10 Reta Lila Weston Institute of Neurological Studies and Queen Square Brain Bank for Neurological Disorders, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
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- 11 Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, UK
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- 11 Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, UK
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- 1 Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
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- 1 Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK 12 Neurogenetics Laboratory, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
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- 1 Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK 4 School of Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AP, UK
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- 1 Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK 2 Alzheimer's Disease Research Centre, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, 114 16th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
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Toledano M, Weinshenker BG, Solomon AJ. A Clinical Approach to the Differential Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep 2015; 15:57. [DOI: 10.1007/s11910-015-0576-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Jahic A, Kreuz F, Zacher P, Fiedler J, Bier A, Reif S, Rieger M, Krüger S, Beetz C, Plaschke J. A novel strumpellin mutation and potential pitfalls in the molecular diagnosis of hereditary spastic paraplegia type SPG8. J Neurol Sci 2014; 347:372-4. [PMID: 25454649 DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2014.10.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2014] [Revised: 09/24/2014] [Accepted: 10/09/2014] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
Abstract
Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous, neurodegenerative movement disorder. A total of eight KIAA0196/strumpellin variants have thus far been associated with SPG8, a rare dominant HSP. We present a novel strumpellin alteration in a small family with clinically pure HSP. We corroborated its causality by comparing it to rare benign variants at several levels, and, along this line, also re-considered previous genetic reports on SPG8. These analyses identified significant challenges in the interpretation of strumpellin alterations, and suggested that at least two of the few families claimed to suffer from SPG8 may have been genetically misdiagnosed.
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Affiliation(s)
- Amir Jahic
- Department of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
| | - Friedmar Kreuz
- Gemeinschaftspraxis für Humangenetik, Gutenbergstraße 5, Dresden, Germany
| | - Pia Zacher
- Gemeinschaftspraxis für Humangenetik, Gutenbergstraße 5, Dresden, Germany; Masters Program General Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - Jana Fiedler
- Gemeinschaftspraxis für Humangenetik, Gutenbergstraße 5, Dresden, Germany
| | - Andrea Bier
- Gemeinschaftspraxis für Humangenetik, Gutenbergstraße 5, Dresden, Germany
| | - Silke Reif
- Gemeinschaftspraxis für Humangenetik, Gutenbergstraße 5, Dresden, Germany
| | - Manuela Rieger
- Gemeinschaftspraxis für Humangenetik, Gutenbergstraße 5, Dresden, Germany
| | - Stefan Krüger
- Gemeinschaftspraxis für Humangenetik, Gutenbergstraße 5, Dresden, Germany
| | - Christian Beetz
- Department of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany.
| | - Jens Plaschke
- Gemeinschaftspraxis für Humangenetik, Gutenbergstraße 5, Dresden, Germany
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