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JOURNAL OF THE NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 419, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2020.117211
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CYP7B1; Hereditary spastic paraplegia; Hydroxycholesterols; Oxysterols; SPG5
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Spastic paraplegia type 5 (SPG5/HSP-CYP7B1) is an autosomal recessive hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) caused by biallelic variants in the CYP7B1 gene, resulting in dysfunction of the enzyme oxysterol-7-alpha-hydroxylase. The consequent accumulation of hydroxycholesterols in plasma seems to be pathognomonic for SPG5, and represent a possible target for treatment. We aimed to characterize Norwegian patients with SPG5, including clinical examinations, genetic analyses, measurements of hydroxycholesterols, electrophysiological investigations and brain imaging. Five unrelated patients carried presumed disease-causing variants in CYP7B1, three of the variants were novel. Four patients presented with pure HSP, one with complex HSP. The three tested patients all had markedly increased levels of 25- and 27-hydroxycholesterol in plasma. Our results suggest that the clinical examination is still the best approach to classify disease severity in patients with SPG5. Plasma hydroxycholesterols were elevated, thus presenting as potentially valuable diagnostic biomarkers, in particular in patients where genetic analyses are inconclusive.
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