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Neurologic phenotypes associated with COL4A1/2 mutations

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posted on 2023-07-26, 15:04 authored by Sara Zagaglia, Christina Selch, Jelena R. Nisevic, Davide Mei, Zuzanna Michalak, Laura Hernandez-Hernandez, S. Krithika, Katharina Vezyroglou, Sophia M. Varadkar, Alexander Pepler, Saskia Biskup, Miguel Leão, Jutta Gärtner, Andreas Merkenschlager, Michaela Jaksch, Rikke S. Møller, Elena Gardella, Britta S. Kristiansen, Lars K. Hansen, Maria S. Vari, Katherine L. Helbig, Sonal Desai, Constance L. Smith-Hicks, Naomi Hino-Fukuyo, Tiina Talvik, Rael Laugesaar, Pilvi Ilves, Katrin Õunap, Ingrid Körber, Till Hartlieb, Manfred Kudernatsch, Peter Winkler, Mareike Schimmel, Anette Hasse, Markus Knuf, Jan Heinemeyer, Christine Makowski, Sondhya Ghedia, Gopinath M. Subramanian, Pasquale Striano, Rhys H. Thomas, Caroline Micallef, Maria Thom, David J. Werring, Gerhard J. Kluger, J. Helen Cross, Renzo Guerrini, Simona Balestrini, Sanjay M. Sisodiya
Objective: To characterize the neurologic phenotypes associated with COL4A1/2 mutations and to seek genotype–phenotype correlation. Methods: We analyzed clinical, EEG, and neuroimaging data of 44 new and 55 previously reported patients with COL4A1/COL4A2 mutations. Results: Childhood-onset focal seizures, frequently complicated by status epilepticus and resistance to antiepileptic drugs, was the most common phenotype. EEG typically showed focal epileptiform discharges in the context of other abnormalities, including generalized sharp waves or slowing. In 46.4% of new patients with focal seizures, porencephalic cysts on brain MRI colocalized with the area of the focal epileptiform discharges. In patients with porencephalic cysts, brain MRI frequently also showed extensive white matter abnormalities, consistent with the finding of diffuse cerebral disturbance on EEG. Notably, we also identified a subgroup of patients with epilepsy as their main clinical feature, in which brain MRI showed nonspecific findings, in particular periventricular leukoencephalopathy and ventricular asymmetry. Analysis of 15 pedigrees suggested a worsening of the severity of clinical phenotype in succeeding generations, particularly when maternally inherited. Mutations associated with epilepsy were spread across COL4A1 and a clear genotype–phenotype correlation did not emerge. Conclusion: COL4A1/COL4A2 mutations typically cause a severe neurologic condition and a broader spectrum of milder phenotypes, in which epilepsy is the predominant feature. Early identification of patients carrying COL4A1/COL4A2 mutations may have important clinical consequences, while for research efforts, omission from large-scale epilepsy sequencing studies of individuals with abnormalities on brain MRI may generate misleading estimates of the genetic contribution to the epilepsies overall.

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  • Yes

Volume

91

Issue number

22

Page range

e2078-e2088

Publication title

Neurology

ISSN

1526-632X

Publisher

Wolters Kluwer

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  • Published version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2020-07-30

Legacy creation date

2020-07-30

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

Faculty of Science & Engineering

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