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Mohammad Rohani^1,2, Anthony E Lang^1,3, Farzad Sina¹

¹Morton and Gloria Shulman Movement Disorders Clinic and the Edmond J. Safra Program in Parkinson's Disease Toronto Western Hospital and Division of Neurology University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada.

Movement Disorders Clinical Practice

|March 15, 2019

Abstract

Background:

Kufor-Rakeb syndrome (KRS) is a rare autosomal recessive neurologic disease with diverse phenotypic features. Herein we report an Iranian KRS family with seizure and action myoclonus in addition to other typical manifestations of this syndrome.

Method:

All family members underwent careful neurologic examination. Exome sequencing was performed and ATP13A2 variation genotyped in all family members.

Results:

Cognitive deficits, hypokinesia, rigidity, spasticity, brisk deep tendon reflexes, upward gaze palsy, tremor, and facial-faucial-finger mini-myoclonus were the common manifestations of all affected siblings. Two cases had seizure and the most severely affected sibling demonstrated severe action myoclonus. Exome sequencing identified a homozygous nonsense mutation c.2455C>T;p.Arg819* in ATP13A2 gene.

Conclusions:

We reported five KRS affected siblings who manifested myoclonus and seizure. The most severely affected one demonstrated action myoclonus, which has not been reported so far.

Keywords:

ATP13A2 mutation Kufor‐Rakeb syndrome action myoclonus neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation seizure

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