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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ogaki, Kotaro
• Koga, Shunsuke
• Heckman, Michael G
• Fiesel, Fabienne C
• Ando, Maya
• Labbé, Catherine
• Lorenzo-Betancor, Oswaldo
• Moussaud-Lamodière, Elisabeth L
• Soto-Ortolaza, Alexandra I
• Walton, Ronald L
• Strongosky, Audrey J
• Uitti, Ryan J
• McCarthy, Allan
• Lynch, Timothy
• Siuda, Joanna
• Opala, Grzegorz
• Rudzinska, Monika
• Krygowska-Wajs, Anna
• Barcikowska, Maria
• Czyzewski, Krzysztof
• Puschmann, Andreas
• Nishioka, Kenya
• Funayama, Manabu
• Hattori, Nobutaka
• Parisi, Joseph E
• Petersen, Ronald C
• Graff-Radford, Neill R
• Boeve, Bradley F
• Springer, Wolfdieter
• Wszolek, Zbigniew K
• Dickson, Dennis W
• Ross, Owen A

Titel

Mitochondrial targeting sequence variants of the CHCHD2 gene are a risk for Lewy body disorders

Ist Teil von

• Neurology, 2015-12, Vol.85 (23), p.2016

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

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MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To assess the role of CHCHD2 variants in patients with Parkinson disease (PD) and Lewy body disease (LBD) in Caucasian populations. All exons of the CHCHD2 gene were sequenced in a US Caucasian patient-control series (878 PD, 610 LBD, and 717 controls). Subsequently, exons 1 and 2 were sequenced in an Irish series (355 PD and 365 controls) and a Polish series (394 PD and 350 controls). Immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence studies were performed on pathologic LBD cases with rare CHCHD2 variants. We identified 9 rare exonic variants of unknown significance. These variants were more frequent in the combined group of PD and LBD patients compared to controls (0.6% vs 0.1%, p = 0.013). In addition, the presence of any rare variant was more common in patients with LBD (2.5% vs 1.0%, p = 0.050) compared to controls. Eight of these 9 variants were located within the gene's mitochondrial targeting sequence. Although the role of variants of the CHCHD2 gene in PD and LBD remains to be further elucidated, the rare variants in the mitochondrial targeting sequence may be a risk factor for Lewy body disorders, which may link CHCHD2 to other genetic forms of parkinsonism with mitochondrial dysfunction.