Novel mutation in ATP13A2 widens the spectrum of Kufor-Rakeb syndrome (PARK9)

H Eiberg, L Hansen, L Korbo, Inge-Merete Nielsen, K Svenstrup, S Bech, Lh Pinborg, L Friberg, LE Hjermind, Or Olsen, Jørgen Erik Nielsen

38 Citationer (Scopus)

Abstract

Kufor-Rakeb syndrome (KRS) is a rare autosomal recessive inherited juvenile parkinsonian syndrome caused by mutations in ATP13A2. We describe six patients from a consanguineous Greenlandic Inuit family, homozygous for a novel frame-shift mutation in exon 22 of ATP13A2 (c.2473C>AA, p.Leu825AsnfsX32). Disease onset varied from 10 to 29 years of age, the latest reported, and the clinical features were highly variable within a wide spectrum of an extrapyramidal-pyramidal syndrome with cognitive/psychiatric features. Ataxia was seen in two patients and axonal neuropathy in one, features not previously related to KRS. Dopamine transporter scans showed symmetrical, severely reduced uptake in striatum in two patients. Magnetic resonance imaging was without atrophy in one patient despite disease duration of 17 years, and cerebral and cerebellar atrophy was seen in another patient after 4 years of disease duration. The molecular pathogenic mechanisms of ATP13A2 mutations are discussed. The observation that the mutant transcript is not degraded by nonsense-mediated RNA decay and the fact that none of the eight heterozygous carriers from the family have KRS symptoms suggest that the mutant protein does not interfere and destroy the function of the wild-type ATP13A2 protein.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftClinical Genetics
Vol/bind82
Udgave nummer3
Sider (fra-til)256-63
Antal sider8
ISSN0009-9163
DOI
StatusUdgivet - sep. 2012

Fingeraftryk

Dyk ned i forskningsemnerne om 'Novel mutation in ATP13A2 widens the spectrum of Kufor-Rakeb syndrome (PARK9)'. Sammen danner de et unikt fingeraftryk.

Citationsformater