The unique neuroradiology of complex I deficiency due to NDUFA12L defect.
In two patients who presented at late infancy with hypotonia, nystagmus and ataxia, interspersed with acute episodes of encephalopathy, we identified a mutation in a complex I assembly factor, NDUFA12L, which resulted in a marked reduction of the NDUFA12L protein and of complex I activity. The involvement of the mamillothalamic tracts, substantia nigra/medial lemniscus, medial longitudinal fasciculus, the corpus medullare and the cerebellum, with relative sparing of the cortex and subcortical white matter was distinctive and resembled the findings in the first and only known patient with mutation in the NDUFA12L gene.
Barghuti
Flora
F
Al-Mustaqbal Hospital, Ramallah, Palestinian Authority.
Elian
Khaled
K
Gomori
John Moshe
JM
Shaag
Avraham
A
Edvardson
Simon
S
Saada
Ann
A
Elpeleg
Orly
O
D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008661:Metabolism, Inborn Errors / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics*; D024101:Mitochondrial Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D018832:Molecular Chaperones / Q000235:genetics*
D024101:Mitochondrial Proteins; D018832:Molecular Chaperones; C501824:NDUFAF2 protein, human