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Abstract
Background Paroxysmal kinesigenic choreoathetosis (PKC) is characterised by recurrent and brief attacks of involuntary movement, inherited as an autosomal dominant trait with incomplete penetrance. A PKC locus has been previously mapped to the pericentromeric region of chromosome 16 (16p11.2-q12.1), but the causative gene remains unidentified.
Methods/results Deep sequencing of this 30 Mb region enriched with array capture in five affected individuals from four Chinese PKC families detected two heterozygous PRRT2 insertions (c.369dupG and c.649dupC), producing frameshifts and premature stop codons (p.S124VfsX10 and p.R217PfsX8, respectively) in two different families. Sanger sequencing confirmed these two mutations and revealed a missense PRRT2 mutation (c.859G→A, p.A287T) in one of the two remaining families. This study also sequenced PRRT2 in 29 sporadic cases affected with PKC and identified mutations in 10 cases, including six with the c.649dupC mutation. Most variants were truncating mutations, consistent with loss-of-function and haploinsufficiency.
Conclusion The present study identifies PRRT2 as the gene mutated in a subset of PKC, and suggests that PKC is genetically heterogeneous.
- Paroxysmal kinesigenic choreoathetosis
- targeted genomic sequencing
- PRRT2 mutations
- mutations
- complex traits
- epilepsy and seizures
- clinical genetics
- molecular genetics
- movement disorders (other than parkinsons)
- neurosciences
- nutrition and metabolism
- genetics
- oncology
- liver disease
- cancer: gastric
- linkage
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Footnotes
JL and XZ contributed equally to this work.
Funding This work was strongly supported by Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (PCSIRT IRT1006), the Science Fund for Creative Research Groups (30721063) and Natural Science Foundation of Beijing (7042037).
Competing interests None.
Patient consent Obtained.
Ethics approval This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.