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JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY
Volume 263, Issue 4, Pages 665-668Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-016-8026-2
Keywords
Dystonia; Genetics; GNAL; DYT25; G alpha(olf)
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- Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) [2010/19206-0, 2011/18202-3, 2013/09867-7, 2014/17128-2]
- NIH [NS081282]
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GNAL was identified as a cause of dystonia in patients from North America, Europe and Asia. In this study, we aimed to investigate the prevalence of GNAL variants in Brazilian patients with dystonia. Ninety-one patients with isolated idiopathic dystonia, negative for THAP1 and TOR1A mutations, were screened for GNAL variants by Sanger sequencing. Functional characterization of the G alpha(olf) protein variant was performed using the bioluminescence resonance energy transfer assay. A novel heterozygous nonsynonymous variant (p. F133L) was identified in a patient with cervical and laryngeal dystonia since the third decade of life, with no family history. This variant was not identified in healthy Brazilian controls and was not described in 63,000 exomas of the ExAC database. The F133L mutant exhibited significantly elevated levels of basal BRET and severely diminished amplitude of response elicited by dopamine, that both indicate substantial functional impairment of G alpha(olf) in transducing receptor signals, which could be involved in dystonia pathophysiology. GNAL mutations are not a common cause of dystonia in the Brazilian population and have a lower prevalence than THAP1 and TOR1A mutations. We present a novel variant that results in partial G alpha(olf) loss of function.
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