L-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria: clinical and molecular study in three Tunisian families. Identification of a new mutation and inter-familial phenotype variability.
We report clinical and molecular studies in three unrelated Tunisian families containing seven patients with L2HGA. Although the age of onset is similar in all these patients at nearly 6 years, they progressively developed peculiar clinical phenotypes different from family to family. The three patients of family 1 showed mental retardation, epilepsy, cerebellar ataxia and pyramidal and pseudobulbar syndromes. The two patients of family 2 showed mental retardation and parkinsonism especially extrapyramidal stiffness, dystonia and myoclonus. The two patients of family 3 showed an intermediate phenotype; they share some clinical signs of the patients of family 1 (epilepsy, pyramidal and extrapyramidal syndromes) and some clinical signs of the patients of family 2 (extrapyramidal stiffness and dystonia). Molecular study identified a novel homozygous c.185C>A, p.A62D mutation on the L2HGDH gene in families 1 and 3 and the already known homozygous c.241A>G, p.K81E mutation in family 2. We suppose that the type of mutation in the L2HGDH gene does not play a complete role in the inter-familial phenotype variability. Disturbance of other unknown metabolic pathways related to L2HGA may contribute to this phenomenon.
Larnaout
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Service of Neurology and Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Neurology, La Rabta 1007, Tunis, Tunisia. abdelmajid.larnaout@rns.tn
Amouri
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Kefi
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Hentati
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017668:Age of Onset; D000429:Alcohol Oxidoreductases / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D020739:Brain Diseases, Metabolic, Inborn / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000201:enzymology / Q000208:ethnology / Q000235:genetics*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004252:DNA Mutational Analysis; D018450:Disease Progression; D005260:Female; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D010375:Pedigree; D010641:Phenotype; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014416:Tunisia; D055815:Young Adult
D000429:Alcohol Oxidoreductases; C506763:L2HGDH protein, human
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