期刊
NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING
卷 35, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2013.10.001
关键词
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Frontotemporal dementia; C9orf72; Hexanucleotide repeats; Risk haplotype
资金
- National Basic Research Program (973 Program) [2011CB510000]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81171068]
The GGGGCC repeat expansion in the C9orf72 gene was recently identified as a major cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in white populations. To estimate the frequency of hexanucleotide repeats in patients with ALS and FTD from mainland China, we screened for C9orf72 in a cohort of 128 patients and 150 control subjects using the repeat-primed polymerase chain reaction method. We observed pathogenic repeat expansions in a family with ALS-FTD and in a patient with sporadic FTD. In the family with ALS-FTD, the proband and the 2 asymptomatic siblings exhibited C9orf72 repeat expansions, and the clinical feature of the proband was characterized by pure motor syndrome with no cognitive impairment. The patient with sporadic FTD presented primarily with deteriorating behavior and mental status. Genotype analysis revealed that the proband shared the previously reported 20-single nucleotide polymorphism risk haplotype, whereas the patient with sporadic FTD carried all single nucleotide polymorphisms except rs2814707-A. To our knowledge, this study is the first to report 2 C9orf72 mutation patients in mainland China, and they shared the similar risk haplotype identified in white populations, suggesting that ALS and FTD associated with C9orf72 mutation was probably derived from a single founder. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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