Clinical, Neuroimaging, and Metabolic Footprint of the Neurodevelopmental Disorder Caused by Monoallelic HK1 Variants

Saskia B Wortmann1, Rene G Feichtinger1, Lucia Abela1

  • 1From the University Children's Hospital Salzburg (S.B.W., R.G.F., J.A.M.), Austria; Amalia Children's Hospital (S.B.W., L.A.G., J. Hebbink, M.A.W.), Department of Pediatrics (Pediatric Neurology), Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Division of Child Neurology (L.A., E.B.), University Children's Hospital Zurich, Switzerland; Pediatric Neurology Department (M.A.), Necker-Enfants Malades University Hospital, Paris Cité University, APHP; Reference Centre for Mitochondrial Disorders (CARAMMEL) (C.-M.D.-B., M.S.), Hôpital Necker-Enfants-Malades, APHP, Université Paris Cité, Imagine Institute, Genetics of Mitochondrial Disorders, INSERM UMR 1163; 6Paediatric Radiology Department (N.B.), AP-HP, Hôpital Necker Enfants Malades, Université Paris Cité, Institut Imagine INSERM U1163France; Department of Toxicogenomics (R.C.), Research School of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, The Netherlands; Institute of Medical Genetics and Applied Genomics (L.S., T.B.H.), University of Tübingen; Praxis für Humangenetik (W.H.); Carl-Thiem-Klinikum Cottbus (W.H.); Center for Human Genetics Tübingen (J. Hildebrandt, N.H.); CeGaT GmbH (J. Hildebrandt, N.H.), Tübingen; Department Pediatrics (N.H., C.T.), Centre for Child and Adolescent Medicine, University of Heidelberg; Department of Neuropediatrics (C.K.), University Children's Hospital, Klinikum Oldenburg, Germany; University of British Columbia (A.L.), Vancouver, Canada; Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children (T.L.), Belfast, Northern Ireland; University Hospital (C. Makowski), LMU Munich, Division of Pediatric Neurology, Developmental Medicine and Social Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Munich, Germany; Department of Neurology (R.J.M.M.), Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain; Reference Center for Intellectual Disabilities of Rare causes (P.M., M.R.), Federation de médecine Génomique des maladies Rares, APHP, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France; University Medical Centre Göttingen (C. Mühlhausen), Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Göttingen, Germany; Université Paris Cité (A.R.), Imagine Institute, Genetics of Mitochondrial Disorders, INSERM UMR 1163; Paediatric Radiology Department (C.-J.R), AP-HP, Hôpital Necker Enfants Malades, Université Paris Cité, Institut Imagine INSERM U1163, Paris France; Division of Pediatric Epileptology (S.S.), Centre for Child and Adolescent Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Germany; Department of Neurology (S.A.Z.), LangeLand Hospital, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands; Metabolic Research Group (M.V.C., E.S.), de Duve Institute and UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium; Technical University of Munich (M. Wagner), School of Medicine, Institute of Human Genetics, Munich, Germany; and Department of Human Genetics (R.A.W.), Translational Metabolic Laboratory (TML), Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Neurology. Genetics
|April 15, 2024
PubMed
Summary

Monoallelic variants in the Hexokinase 1 gene (HK1) cause neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD). A distinct cerebrospinal fluid biomarker profile, including low glucose and high lactate, aids in diagnosis and understanding disease mechanisms.

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