Journal
BRAIN
Volume 132, Issue -, Pages 1545-1552Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awp065
Keywords
myophosphorylase deficiency; exercise capacity; glycogenosis V; McArdle phenotype; forearm exercise test
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- Sara and Ludvig Elsass Foundation
- Danish Medical Research Council
- NOVO Nordic Foundation
- University of Copenhagen
- VA Merit Review
- Giant Tiger Foundation
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Over 100 mutations in the myophosphorylase gene, which cause McArdle disease, are known. All these mutations have resulted in a complete block of muscle glycogenolysis, and accordingly, no genotypephenotype correlation has been identified in this condition. We evaluated physiologic and genetic features of two patients with a variant form of McArdle disease, associated with unusually high exercise capacity. Physiologic findings were compared to those in 47 patients with typical McArdle disease, and 17 healthy subjects. Subjects performed an ischaemic forearm exercise test to assess lactate and ammonia production. Peak oxidative capacity (VO2max) and cardiac output were determined, using cycle ergometry as the exercise modality. The two patients with atypical McArdle disease carried common mutations on one allele (R50X and G205S), and novel splice mutations in introns 3 [IVS3-26AG (c.425-26AG)] and 5 [IVS5-601GA (c.856-601GA)] on the other allele. Plasma lactate after ischaemic exercise decreased in all typical McArdle patients, but increased in the two atypical McArdle patients (10 of that in healthy subjects). Peak workload and oxidative capacity were 2-fold higher in patients with atypical McArdle disease compared to typical McArdle patients. Oxygen uptake, relative to cardiac output, was severely impaired in the 47 patients with typical McArdle disease, and partially normalized in the milder affected McArdle patients. These findings identify the first distinct genotype-phenotype relationship in McArdle disease, and indicate that minimal myophosphorylase activity ameliorates the typical McArdle disease phenotype by augmenting muscle oxidative capacity. The milder form of McArdle disease provides important clues to the level of functional myophosphorylase needed to support muscle oxidative metabolism.
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