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Dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy: clinical features are closely related to unstable expansions of trinucleotide (CAG) repeat.

Abstract：

:Dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease characterized by various combinations of ataxia, choreoathetosis, myoclonus, epilepsy, and dementia as well as a wide range of ages at onset. A specific unstable trinucleotide repeat expansion in a gene on the short arm of chromosome 12 was recently identified as the pathogenic mutation for this disease. We investigated how the degree of expansion of the CAG repeat effects the clinical manifestations of dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy. The size of the expanded alleles was well correlated with the age at onset (r = -0.696, p < 0.001). Patients with the progressive myoclonus epilepsy phenotype had larger expansions (62-79 repeats) and an earlier age at onset (onset before age 21). Furthermore, most of the patients with the progressive myoclonus epilepsy phenotype inherited their expanded alleles from their affected fathers. On the other hand, patients with the non-progressive myoclonus epilepsy phenotype showed smaller expansions (54-67 repeats) and a later age at onset (onset at or after age 21). Detailed analyses of clinical features demonstrated that ataxia, involuntary movement of either myoclonus or choreoathetosis, and intellectual decline are cardinal features of dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy, with myoclonus and epilepsy being observed more frequently in patients with an earlier age at onset. Thus the wide variation in clinical manifestations of dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy can now be clearly explained based on the degree of CAG repeat expansion, which strongly indicates that the expanded alleles are intimately involved in the neuronal degeneration in dentatofugal and pallidofugal systems.

journal_name

Ann Neurol

journal_title

Annals of neurology

authors

Ikeuchi T,Koide R,Tanaka H,Onodera O,Igarashi S,Takahashi H,Kondo R,Ishikawa A,Tomoda A,Miike T

doi

10.1002/ana.410370610

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pub_date

1995-06-01 00:00:00

pages

769-75

issue

eissn

0364-5134

issn

1531-8249

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Dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy: clinical features are closely related to unstable expansions of trinucleotide (CAG) repeat.