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NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING
Volume 97, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2020.07.010
Keywords
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; KIF5A; Japanese; Splice-site variant; Next-generation sequencing
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- Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) [JP19ek010928h0003, JP19lk1601002h0002, JP19ak010111h0001, JP20ek0109492h0001]
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [JP19K06523, JP19K07973]
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Two recent genetic studies found that loss-of-function mutation of the C-terminal cargo-binding tail domain of the KIF5A gene cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). This study in Japanese patients with sporadic ALS identified a novel loss-of-function variant in KIF5A, highlighting its rare occurrence as a cause of ALS.
Two recent genetic studies reported that loss-of-function mutation of the C-terminal cargo-binding tail domain of the KIF5A gene cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The aim of this study is to investigate the frequency of KIF5A variants in Japanese patients with sporadic ALS. In total, 807 sporadic ALS patients and 191 normal controls from a multicenter ALS cohort in Japan were included. Whole exome sequencing on an Illumina HiSeq 2000/2500 sequencer was used to identify and select variants within the KIF5A gene. Thirteen patients harbored a nonsynonymous variant in the KIF5A gene; These were considered variants of uncertain significance. One patient harbored a novel splice-site variant (c.2993-3C>A) in the C-terminal cargo-binding tail domain of the KIF5A gene. Functional analysis of this variant revealed that it caused skipping of exon 27. The frequency of KIF5A mutations in Japanese patients with sporadic ALS was 0.12% (1/807). This study reports a novel loss-of-function variant in KIF5A, and indicates that loss-of-function variant in KIF5A is a rare cause of sporadic ALS in Japanese patients. (C) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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