Characterization of the repeat expansion size in C9orf72 in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia


Por: Dols-Icardo, O, Garcia-Redondo, A, Rojas-Garcia, R, Sanchez-Valle, R, Noguera, A, Gomez-Tortosa, E, Pastor, P, Hernandez, I, Esteban-Perez, J, Suarez-Calvet, M, Anton-Aguirre, S, Amer, G, Ortega-Cubero, S, Blesa, R, Fortea, J, Alcolea, D, Capdevila, A, Antonell, A, Llado, A, Munoz-Blanco, JL, Mora, JS, Galan-Davila, L, De Rivera, FJR, Lleo, A, Clarimon, J

Publicada: 1 feb 2014
Resumen:
Hexanucleotide repeat expansions within the C9orf72 gene are the most important genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). The difficulty of developing a precise method to determine the expansion size has hampered the study of possible correlations between the hexanucleotide repeat number and clinical phenotype. Here we characterize, through a new non-radioactive Southern blot protocol, the expansion size range in a series of 38 ALS and 22 FTD heterozygous carriers of >30 copies of the repeat. Maximum, median and modal hexanucleotide repeat number were higher in ALS patients than in FTD patients (P < 0.05 in all comparisons). A higher median number of repeats correlated with a bigger range of repeat sizes (Spearman's rho = 0.743, P = 1.05 x 10(-11)). We did not find any correlation between age of onset or disease duration with the repeat size in neither ALS nor FTD mutation carriers. Clinical presentation (bulbar or spinal) in ALS patients did not correlate either with the repeat length. We finally analyzed two families with affected and unaffected repeat expansion carriers, compared the size of the repeat expansion between two monozygotic (MZ) twins (one affected of ALS and the other unaffected), and examined the expansion size in two different tissues (cerebellum and peripheral blood) belonging to the same FTD patient. The results suggested that the length of the C9orf72 repeat varies between family members, including MZ twins, and among different tissues from the same individual.

Filiaciones:
Dols-Icardo, O:
 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, Memory Unit, Dept Neurol, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, Neuromuscular Dis Unit, Dept Neurol, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, St Pau Biomed Res Inst, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Ctr Networking Biomed Res Neurodegenerat Dis CIBE, Madrid, Spain

Garcia-Redondo, A:
 Hosp 12 Octubre, Dept Neurol, Inst Invest Biomed, ALS Unit, E-28041 Madrid, Spain

 Ctr Biomed Network Res Rare Dis CIBERER, Valencia, Spain

Rojas-Garcia, R:
 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, Memory Unit, Dept Neurol, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, Neuromuscular Dis Unit, Dept Neurol, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, St Pau Biomed Res Inst, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Ctr Networking Biomed Res Neurodegenerat Dis CIBE, Madrid, Spain

Sanchez-Valle, R:
 Hosp Clin Barcelona, Dept Neurol, Alzheimers Dis & Other Cognit Disorders Unit, Inst Neurosci,IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain

Noguera, A:
 Hosp Univ Son Espases, Dept Clin Anal, Mallorca, Spain

Gomez-Tortosa, E:
 Fdn Jimenez Diaz, Dept Neurol, E-28040 Madrid, Spain

Pastor, P:
 Ctr Networking Biomed Res Neurodegenerat Dis CIBE, Madrid, Spain

 Univ Navarra, Neurogenet Lab, Div Neurosci, Ctr Appl Med Res, E-31080 Pamplona, Spain

 Univ Navarra, Clin Univ Navarra, Dept Neurol, Sch Med, E-31080 Pamplona, Spain

Hernandez, I:
 Inst Catala Neurociencies Aplicades, Memory Clin Fundacio ACE, Barcelona, Spain

Esteban-Perez, J:
 Hosp 12 Octubre, Dept Neurol, Inst Invest Biomed, ALS Unit, E-28041 Madrid, Spain

 Ctr Biomed Network Res Rare Dis CIBERER, Valencia, Spain

Suarez-Calvet, M:
 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, Memory Unit, Dept Neurol, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, Neuromuscular Dis Unit, Dept Neurol, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, St Pau Biomed Res Inst, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Ctr Networking Biomed Res Neurodegenerat Dis CIBE, Madrid, Spain

Anton-Aguirre, S:
 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, Memory Unit, Dept Neurol, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, Neuromuscular Dis Unit, Dept Neurol, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, St Pau Biomed Res Inst, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Ctr Networking Biomed Res Neurodegenerat Dis CIBE, Madrid, Spain

Amer, G:
 Hosp Univ Son Espases, Dept Neurol, Mallorca, Spain

Ortega-Cubero, S:
 Ctr Networking Biomed Res Neurodegenerat Dis CIBE, Madrid, Spain

 Univ Navarra, Neurogenet Lab, Div Neurosci, Ctr Appl Med Res, E-31080 Pamplona, Spain

 Univ Navarra, Clin Univ Navarra, Dept Neurol, Sch Med, E-31080 Pamplona, Spain

Blesa, R:
 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, Memory Unit, Dept Neurol, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, Neuromuscular Dis Unit, Dept Neurol, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, St Pau Biomed Res Inst, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Ctr Networking Biomed Res Neurodegenerat Dis CIBE, Madrid, Spain

Fortea, J:
 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, Memory Unit, Dept Neurol, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, Neuromuscular Dis Unit, Dept Neurol, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, St Pau Biomed Res Inst, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Ctr Networking Biomed Res Neurodegenerat Dis CIBE, Madrid, Spain

Alcolea, D:
 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, Memory Unit, Dept Neurol, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, Neuromuscular Dis Unit, Dept Neurol, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, St Pau Biomed Res Inst, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Ctr Networking Biomed Res Neurodegenerat Dis CIBE, Madrid, Spain

Capdevila, A:
 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, Memory Unit, Dept Neurol, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, Neuromuscular Dis Unit, Dept Neurol, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, St Pau Biomed Res Inst, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

Antonell, A:
 Hosp Clin Barcelona, Dept Neurol, Alzheimers Dis & Other Cognit Disorders Unit, Inst Neurosci,IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain

Llado, A:
 Hosp Clin Barcelona, Dept Neurol, Alzheimers Dis & Other Cognit Disorders Unit, Inst Neurosci,IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain

Munoz-Blanco, JL:
 Hosp Univ Gregorio Maranon, Dept Neurol, ALS Unit, Madrid, Spain

Mora, JS:
 Hosp Carlos III, Dept Neurol, ALS Unit, Madrid, Spain

Galan-Davila, L:
 Hosp Clin Univ San Carlos, Dept Neurol, ALS Unit, Madrid, Spain

De Rivera, FJR:
 Hosp Univ La Paz, Dept Neurol, ALS Unit, Madrid, Spain

Lleo, A:
 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, Memory Unit, Dept Neurol, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, Neuromuscular Dis Unit, Dept Neurol, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, St Pau Biomed Res Inst, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Ctr Networking Biomed Res Neurodegenerat Dis CIBE, Madrid, Spain

Clarimon, J:
 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, Memory Unit, Dept Neurol, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, Neuromuscular Dis Unit, Dept Neurol, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp Santa Creu & St Pau, St Pau Biomed Res Inst, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

 Ctr Networking Biomed Res Neurodegenerat Dis CIBE, Madrid, Spain
ISSN: 09646906





HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS
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OXFORD UNIV PRESS, GREAT CLARENDON ST, OXFORD OX2 6DP, ENGLAND, Reino Unido
Tipo de documento: Article
Volumen: 23 Número: 3
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WOS Id: 000330841700015
ID de PubMed: 24057670
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