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Clinical and genetic characteristics of non-Asian dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy: a systematic review

Wardle, Mark, Morris, Huw Rees and Robertson, Neil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5409-4909 2009. Clinical and genetic characteristics of non-Asian dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy: a systematic review. Movement Disorders 24 (11) , pp. 1636-1640. 10.1002/mds.22642

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Abstract

Dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA) is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder regarded as found almost exclusively among the Japanese. We have performed as systematic review of published literature to investigate the clinical and genetic characteristics of non-Asian DRPLA. We identified 183 non-Asian patients in 27 families reported with DRPLA with a variable level of clinical information. Mean age at onset was 31 (range 1–67) with epilepsy, ataxia, and chorea common presenting features. A highly significant relationship was identified between repeat length and age at onset with repeat length accounting for 62% of the observed variation in age at onset (P < 0.0001). In addition, a highly significant relationship between repeat length and main presenting complaint was identified (P < 0.001). There was evidence of marked anticipation with a median intergenerational reduction in age at onset of 19 years with a corresponding increase of five repeats per generation. DRPLA is not exclusively found among the Japanese but has been reported worldwide. As such, DRPLA should be considered in the differential diagnosis of a wide spectrum of neurological disease, particularly if there is a dominant family history. Non-Asian DRPLA clinico-genetic phenomenology are similar to Asian series and our study confirms marked genetic anticipation together with a clear association between repeat length and clinical phenotype and disease severity.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Medicine
Subjects: Q Science > QH Natural history > QH426 Genetics
R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Uncontrolled Keywords: dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy; spinocerebellar ataxia; CAG repeat; myoclonic epilepsy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISSN: 0885-3185
Last Modified: 19 Oct 2022 10:00
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/22893

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