Dopa-responsive dystonia: a clinical and molecular genetic study

Bandmann, O., Valente, E. M., Holmans, Peter Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0870-9412, Surtees, R. A., Walters, J. H., Wevers, R. A., Marsden, C. D. and Wood, N. W. 1998. Dopa-responsive dystonia: a clinical and molecular genetic study. Annals of Neurology 44 (4) , pp. 649-656. 10.1002/ana.410440411

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Abstract

We have studied the GTP-cyclohydrolase 1 (GCH-1) gene in 30 patients with the diagnosis of clinically definite (n = 20) or possible (n = 10) dopa-responsive dystonia (DRD) as well as in a child with atypical phenylketonuria due to complete GCH-1 deficiency. A large number of new heterozygote mutations (seven point mutations, two splice site mutations, and one deletion) as well as a new homozygote mutation in the child with atypical phenylketonuria were detected. In addition, two previously described mutations were found in two other cases. We further extended our investigation of GCH-1 to the 5' and 3' regulatory regions and report the first detection of point mutations in the 5' untranslated region. Demethylation of CpG islands does not appear to be an important causative factor for the GCH-1 mutations in DRD. In addition, we have extended the clinical phenotype of genetically proven DRD to focal dystonia, dystonia with relapsing and remitting course, and DRD with onset in the first week of life. None of our DRD patients without a mutation in GCH-1 had the 3-bp deletion recently detected in DYT1, the causative gene for idiopathic torsion dystonia with linkage to 9q34.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG) Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute (NMHRI)
Subjects:	R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell
ISSN:	0364-5134
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2022 09:34
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/81577

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