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Genetic Variant in GRM1 Underlies Congenital Cerebellar Ataxia with No Obvious Intellectual Disability

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms24021551

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cerebellar ataxia; cerebellar hypoplasia; early-onset ataxia; metabotropic glutamate receptor 1; GRM1; mGluR1

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In this study, a new homozygous missense mutation in the GRM1 gene was identified in a patient from a family of Azerbaijani origin with congenital cerebellar ataxia. The mutation affects the transmembrane domain 7, which is critical for ligand binding and receptor activity modulation. This is the first report of a mutation in this region causing a congenital autosomal recessive form of cerebellar ataxia without obvious intellectual disability.
Metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 (mGluR1) plays a crucial role in slow excitatory postsynaptic conductance, synapse formation, synaptic plasticity, and motor control. The GRM1 gene is expressed mainly in the brain, with the highest expression in the cerebellum. Mutations in the GRM1 gene have previously been known to cause autosomal recessive and autosomal dominant spinocerebellar ataxias. In this study, whole-exome sequencing of a patient from a family of Azerbaijani origin with a diagnosis of congenital cerebellar ataxia was performed, and a new homozygous missense mutation in the GRM1 gene was identified. The mutation leads to the homozygous amino acid substitution of p.Thr824Arg in an evolutionarily highly conserved region encoding the transmembrane domain 7, which is critical for ligand binding and modulating of receptor activity. This is the first report in which a mutation has been identified in the last transmembrane domain of the mGluR1, causing a congenital autosomal recessive form of cerebellar ataxia with no obvious intellectual disability. Additionally, we summarized all known presumable pathogenic genetic variants in the GRM1 gene to date. We demonstrated that multiple rare variants in the GRM1 underlie a broad diversity of clinical neurological and behavioral phenotypes depending on the nature and protein topology of the mutation.

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