Clinical spectrum of POLR3-related leukodystrophy caused by biallelic POLR1C pathogenic variants

Laurence Gauquelin1, Ferdy K Cayami1, László Sztriha1

  • 1Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery (L.G., L.T.T., K.G., G.B.), McGill University, Montreal, Canada; Department of Pediatrics (L.G., L.T.T., K.G., G.B.), McGill University, Montreal, Canada; Division of Clinical and Metabolic Genetics and Division of Neurology (L.G., G.Y.), The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Department of Child Neurology (F.K.C., M.S.V.D.K., N.I.W.), Emma Children's Hospital, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Clinical Genetics (F.K.C., R.M.V.S.), VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Human Genetics (F.K.C.), Center for Biomedical Research, Diponegoro University, Semarang, Indonesia; Department of Pediatrics (L.S.), Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary; Child Health and Human Development Program (L.T.T., K.G., G.B.), Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Canada; Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Specialized Medicine (L.T.T., K.G., G.B.), McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Canada; Centre de Référence Neurogénétique (F.H., C.G.), Service de Génétique, CHU Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France; Department of Pediatrics (E.L.F.), Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; Developmental Neurology Department (S.D.A.), Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico C. Besta, Milan, Italy; Neuroscience and Neurorehabilitation Department (G.V.), Bambino Gesu Children's Hospital, Rome, Italy; Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine (I.T.), Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, MO; University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine (I.T.), Kansas City, MO; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (I.T.), Children's Mercy Hospitals, Kansas City, MO; Department of Pediatrics (D.M.N.), Section of Medical Genetics, Ochsner for Children, New Orleans, LA; GeneDx (R.P.), Gaithersburg, MD; Division of Neurology (K.S.L.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, AZ; Department of Pediatric Neurology (E.W.), Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Department of Medical Genetics (T.P.), Telemark Hospital, Skien, Norway; Department of Paediatric Neurology (P.F.), St Georges University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom; Clinical Genetics Service (M.M.), St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom; Clinical Genetics Department (J.R.), Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital NHS Trust, Exeter, United Kingdom; Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery (R.W.), The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia; Center of Developmental Neurology (H.P.), Frankfurt, Germany; Department of Neurology (B.V.D.W.), Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Department of Neurology (D.T.), Essen University Hospital, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany; Department of Clinical Genetics (A.D., C.S.), Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, United Kingdom; Wellcome Sanger Institute (DDD Study), Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Department of Pediatrics (N.T.), Division of Child Neurology, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, United States of America; Movement Disorders Center and Neurogenetics Research Program (M.C.K.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, AZ; Program in Neuroscience (M.C.K.), Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America; Division of Neurology (S.S.), Department of Pediatrics, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Associated Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital, New Delhi, India; Division of Neurology (A.V.), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Department of Neurology (A.V.), Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America; Department of Child Neurology (D.T.), Neurological Institute C. Besta Foundation IRCCS, Milan, Italy; Department of Functional Genomics (M.S.V.D.K.), VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Unit of Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Disorders (E.B.), Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Bambino Gesu Children's Hospital, Rome, Italy; Laboratoire MRGM, INSERM U1211, University Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France; Université de Bordeaux (S.F.), INSERM U1212, CNRS 5320, Bordeaux, France; and Department of Human Genetics (G.B.), McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Neurology. Genetics
|February 12, 2020
PubMed
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