Biallelic RFC1-expansion in a French multicentric sporadic ataxia cohort

Autor: Aleksandra Nadaj-Pakleza, Lucas Corti, Hélène Puccio, Mathieu Anheim, Jamel Chelly, Cecilia Marelli, Julien Tarabeux, Nicolas Dondaine, Nadège Diedhiou, Odile Gebus, Marilyne Almeras, Pauline Fahrer, Cécile Cauquil, Jean-Baptiste Chanson, Béatrice Lannes, Laura Robelin, Marie Claire Vincent, Mehdi Benkirane, Guillaume Taieb, Christine Tranchant, Gabrielle Rudolf, Matthieu Canuet, Andoni Echaniz-Laguna, Lise Larrieu, Solveig Montaut, Benoit Lhermitte
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Journal of Neurology.
ISSN: 1432-1459
0340-5354
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-021-10499-5
Popis: Cerebellar ataxia with neuropathy and vestibular areflexia syndrome (CANVAS) is a recessively inherited multisystem ataxia compromising cerebellar, vestibular, and sensory nerves, which has been associated to a pathogenic AAGGG(n) biallelic expansion repeat in the RFC1 gene. Our objective was to assess its prevalence in a French cohort of patients with idiopathic sporadic late-onset ataxia (ILOA), idiopathic early-onset ataxia (IEOA), or Multiple System Atrophy of Cerebellar type (MSA-C). 163 patients were recruited in 3 French tertiary centers: 100 ILOA, 21 IEOA, and 42 patients with possible or probable MSA-C. A pathogenic biallelic RFC1 AAGGG(n) repeat expansion was found in 15 patients: 15/100 in the ILOA group, but none in the IEOA and MSA-C subgroups. 14/15 patients had a CANVAS phenotype. Only 1/15 had isolated cerebellar ataxia, but also shorter biallelic expansions. Two RFC1 AAGGG(n) alleles were found in 78% of patients with a CANVAS phenotype. In one post-mortem case, the pathophysiological involvement of cerebellum and medullar posterior columns was found. Our study confirms the genetic heterogeneity of the CANVAS and that RFC1 repeat expansions should be searched for preferentially in case of unexplained ILOA associated with a sensory neuronopathy, but not particularly in patients classified as MSA-C.
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