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Familial Partial Lipodystrophy: Clinical Features, Genetics and Treatment in a Greek Referral Center

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DOI: 10.3390/ijms241512045

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lipodystrophy; diabetes mellitus; FPLD; metreleptin; exons; introns; hypertriglyceridemia; insulin resistance

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This study observed 39 Greek patients with FPLD and found that most patients' genetic mutations were not associated with the lipodystrophic phenotype. However, treatment with metreleptin significantly improved glycemic and lipidemic control in some patients. Further large-scale studies are needed to understand the genetic and allelic heterogeneity of the disease and predict treatment response.
Familial partial lipodystrophy (FPLD) is a rare syndrome in which a patient's phenotype is not merely dependent on the specific genetic mutation, but it is also defined by a combination of other demographic, environmental and genetic factors. In this prospective observational study in a Greek referral center, we enrolled 39 patients who fulfilled the clinical criteria of FPLD. A genetic analysis was conducted, which included sequence and deletion/duplication analyses of the LMNA and PPRARG genes, along with anthropometric and metabolic parameters. The treatment responses of patients who were eligible for treatment with metreleptin were evaluated at 3 and 12 months. In most of the patients, no significant changes were detected at the exon level, and any mutations that led to changes at the protein level were not associated with the lipodystrophic phenotype. On the contrary, various changes were detected at the intron level, especially in introns 7 and 10, whose clinical significance is considered unknown. In addition, treatment with metreleptin in specific FPLD patients significantly improved glycemic and lipidemic control, an effect which was sustained at the 12-month follow-up. More large-scale studies are necessary to clarify the genetic and allelic heterogeneity of the disease, along with other parameters which could predict treatment response.

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