期刊
JOURNAL OF THE NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES
卷 334, 期 1-2, 页码 119-122出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2013.08.003
关键词
Madras motor neuron disease; MMND; Riboflavin receptors; C9ORF72; Brown-Vialetto-Van Laere syndrome; BVVL
资金
- MRC
- Wellcome Trust
- BRT
- DMRF
- AFM
- NIHR UCLH/UCL Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre
- MRC [MC_G1000735, G0802760, MR/J004758/1, G1001253, G108/638] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [MR/J004758/1, G108/638, G0802760, MC_G1000735, G1001253] Funding Source: researchfish
Introduction: Madras motor neuron disease (MMND), MMND variant (MMNDV) and Familial MMND (FMMND) have a unique geographic distribution predominantly reported from Southern India. The characteristic features are onset in young, weakness and wasting of limbs, multiple lower cranial nerve palsies and sensorineural hearing loss. There is a considerable overlap in the phenotype of MMND with Brown-Vialetto-Van Laere syndrome (BVVL) Boltshauser syndrome, Nathalie syndrome and Fazio-Londe syndrome. Recently a number of BVVL cases and families have been described with mutations in two riboflavin transporter genes SLC52A2 and SLC52A3 (solute carrier family 52, riboflavin transporter, member 2 and 3 respectively). Methods and results: We describe six families and four sporadic MMND cases that have been clinically characterized in detail with history, examination, imaging and electrophysiological investigations. We sequenced the SLC52A1, SLC52A2 and SLC52A3 in affected probands and sporadic individuals from the MMND series as well as the C9ORF72 expansion. No genetic defects were identified and the C9ORF72 repeats were all less than 10. Conclusions: These data suggest that MMND is a distinct clinical subgroup of childhood onset MND patients where the known genetic defects are so far negative. The clinico-genetic features of MMND in comparison with the BVVL group of childhood motor neuron diseases suggest that these diseases are likely to share a common defective biological pathway that may be a combination of genetic and environmental factors. (C) 2013 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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