TY - JOUR
T1 - A Swedish family with de novo alpha-synuclein A53T mutation: evidence for early cortical dysfunction
AU - Puschmann, Andreas
AU - Ross, Owen A
AU - Vilariño-Güell, Carles
AU - Lincoln, Sarah J
AU - Kachergus, Jennifer M
AU - Cobb, Stephanie A
AU - Lindquist, Suzanne G
AU - Nielsen, Jørgen Erik
AU - Wszolek, Zbigniew K
AU - Farrer, Matthew
AU - Widner, Håkan
AU - van Westen, Danielle
AU - Hägerström, Douglas
AU - Markopoulou, Katerina
AU - Chase, Bruce A
AU - Nilsson, Karin
AU - Reimer, Jan
AU - Nilsson, Christer
N1 - Keywords: Adult; Cerebral Cortex; Female; Humans; Intermediate Filament Proteins; Male; Mutation; Parkinson Disease; Pedigree; Polymerase Chain Reaction; Sweden
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - A de novo alpha-synuclein A53T (p.Ala53 Th; c.209G > A) mutation has been identified in a Swedish family with autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease (PD). Two affected individuals had early-onset (before 31 and 40 years), severe levodopa-responsive PD with prominent dysphasia, dysarthria, and cognitive decline. Longitudinal clinical follow-up, EEG, SPECT and CSF biomarker examinations suggested an underlying encephalopathy with cortical involvement. The mutated allele (c.209A) was present within a haplotype different from that shared among mutation carriers in the Italian (Contursi) and the Greek-American Family H kindreds. One unaffected family member carried the mutation haplotype without the c.209A mutation, strongly suggesting its de novo occurrence within this family. Furthermore, a novel mutation c.488G > A (p.Arg163His; R163H) in the presenilin-2 (PSEN2) gene was detected, but was not associated with disease state.
AB - A de novo alpha-synuclein A53T (p.Ala53 Th; c.209G > A) mutation has been identified in a Swedish family with autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease (PD). Two affected individuals had early-onset (before 31 and 40 years), severe levodopa-responsive PD with prominent dysphasia, dysarthria, and cognitive decline. Longitudinal clinical follow-up, EEG, SPECT and CSF biomarker examinations suggested an underlying encephalopathy with cortical involvement. The mutated allele (c.209A) was present within a haplotype different from that shared among mutation carriers in the Italian (Contursi) and the Greek-American Family H kindreds. One unaffected family member carried the mutation haplotype without the c.209A mutation, strongly suggesting its de novo occurrence within this family. Furthermore, a novel mutation c.488G > A (p.Arg163His; R163H) in the presenilin-2 (PSEN2) gene was detected, but was not associated with disease state.
U2 - 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2009.06.007
DO - 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2009.06.007
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 19632874
SN - 1353-8020
VL - 15
SP - 627
EP - 632
JO - Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
JF - Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
IS - 9
ER -