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Aurélie Méneret1, Christel Depienne1, Florence Riant1
1From INSERM, U 975, and CNRS 7225-CRICM (A.M., C.D., O.T., D.B., I.L., M.V., A.B., E.R.), Département de Neurologie (A.M., M.V., E.R.), Fédération de Génétique, Département de Génétique et de Cytogénétique (C.D., A.B.), Banque d'ADN et de cellules (I.L.), Department of Biostatistics (J.-L.G.), and Centre d'Investigation Clinique Pitié Neurosciences 1422 (E.R.), Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris; Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris-6 (A.M., C.D., M.V., A.B., E.R.), UMR_S 975, Paris; Laboratoire de Génétique (F.R.), Groupe hospitalier Lariboisière-Fernand Widal, AP-HP, Paris; INSERM UMR_S740 (F.R.), Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot, Paris, France; Unit of Neurology (M.C., A.B.), Florence Health Authority, Italy; Génétique Médicale (P.B.), CHU Paris Nord, Hôpital Jean Verdier, Bondy, France; Department of Human Genetics (J.W.), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Institute of Neurogenetics (A.W.), University of Lübeck, Germany; Service de Neuropédiatrie (D.D.), Hôpital Trousseau, AP-HP, Paris, France; Unit of Neurology (M.R.), Villa Sofia-Cervello Hospital, Palermo; Department of Neuroscience (S.R.), Section of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria of Siena, Italy; Neurologie et Pathologie du Mouvement (L.D.), Neurologie A, Hopital Salengro, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, EA 1046, Lille, France; Pediatric Neurology and Metabolism (L.D.M.), Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Belgium; James J. and Joan A. Gardner Family Center for Parkinson's disease and Movement Disorders (A.J.E.), University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center, Cincinnati, OH; IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris (S.F.), Calambrone, Pisa, Italy; Department of Neurology (S.K.), University Hospital Würzburg, Germany; Service de Génétique Clinique (C.Q.), Hôpital Sud, Rennes, France; Institute for Human Genetics (S.R.-S.), Uniklinik RWTH Aachen, Germany; Service de Génétique (G.P.), CHU Clémenceau, Caen, F
Objective:
We screened a large series of individuals with congenital mirror movements (CMM) for mutations in the 2 identified causative genes, DCC and RAD51.
Methods:
We studied 6 familial and 20 simplex CMM cases. Each patient had a standardized neurologic assessment. Analysis of DCC and RAD51 coding regions included Sanger sequencing and a quantitative method allowing detection of micro rearrangements. We then compared the frequency of rare variants predicted to be pathogenic by either the PolyPhen-2 or the SIFT algorithm in our population and in the 4,300 controls of European origin on the Exome Variant Server.
Results:
We found 3 novel truncating mutations of DCC that segregate with CMM in 4 of the 6 families. Among the 20 simplex cases, we found one exonic deletion of DCC, one DCC mutation leading to a frameshift, 5 missense variants in DCC, and 2 missense variants in RAD51. All 7 missense variants were predicted to be pathogenic by one or both algorithms. Statistical analysis showed that the frequency of variants predicted to be deleterious was significantly different between patients and controls (p < 0.001 for both RAD51 and DCC).
Conclusion:
Mutations and variants in DCC and RAD51 are strongly associated with CMM, but additional genes causing CMM remain to be discovered.
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