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  • Genetics
  • Neurology

Background:

  • Blepharospasm is a common focal dystonia characterized by involuntary eyelid spasms and closure.
  • Familial blepharospasm often exhibits autosomal dominant inheritance with reduced penetrance.
  • GNAL and CIZ1 are known associated genes; TOR2A and REEP4 were recently implicated by exome sequencing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the role of candidate genes GNAL, CIZ1, TOR2A, and REEP4 in blepharospasm.
  • To identify potential genetic variants associated with blepharospasm and Meige's syndrome.

Main Methods:

  • Sanger sequencing of exons and exon-intron boundaries for GNAL, CIZ1, TOR2A, and REEP4.
  • Analysis of 132 patients diagnosed with blepharospasm and/or Meige's syndrome.

Main Results:

  • Variants in GNAL, CIZ1, and TOR2A were deemed benign.
  • REEP4 sequencing identified two nonsynonymous single nucleotide variants (SNVs), a splice site variant, and an indel.
  • All identified REEP4 variants were predicted as damaging by in silico analysis.

Conclusions:

  • The REEP4 gene harbors potentially damaging variants in blepharospasm patients.
  • Further studies, including larger cohort sequencing and functional analyses of REEP4, are warranted to confirm its association with blepharospasm.