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NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING
Volume 47, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2016.07.027
Keywords
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; C9orf72; GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat expansion; Splice site mutation; Loss-of-function
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- Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission [Z151100003915078]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [81230015]
- Neuroscience Center of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
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Abnormal expansion of a hexanucleotide GGGGCC repeat in the C9orf72 gene is the most common cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia in Caucasians. However, the underlying pathologic mechanisms remain controversial, and both loss-of-function and gain-of-function models have been proposed. To gain further insight into these mechanisms, we performed mutation analysis of C9orf72 in 276 Han Chinese patients with ALS. We identified GGGGCC expansions in 2 cases of sporadic ALS with 38 and 63 repeats, as well as a novel splice site mutation (c.601-2A>G) in a third case. These genetic alterations were not detected in 332 control patients without neurological disease. Intriguingly, functional analysis revealed that the splice site mutation disrupted the reading frame, creating a premature stop codon (p.I201fsX235). Decreased levels of the mutant messenger RNA were detected in patient cells, suggesting that it may undergo nonsense-mediated messenger RNA decay. Taken together, these results demonstrate that C9orf72 mutation is infrequently associated with ALS in Han Chinese patients and suggest that a splice site mutation in C9orf72 may lead to loss of function due to haploinsufficiency of the resulting protein. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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