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© 2018 European Society of Human Genetics.We identified three non-related patients manifesting a childhood-onset progressive neuromyopathy with congenital cataracts, delayed walking, distal weakness and wasting, glaucoma and swallowing difficulties. Electrophysiology and nerve biopsies showed a mixed axonal and demyelinating neuropathy, while muscle biopsy disclosed both neurogenic and myopathic changes with ragged red fibers, and muscle MRI showed consistent features across patients, with a peculiar concentric disto-proximal gradient of fatty replacement. We used targeted next generation sequencing and candidate gene approach to study these families. Compound biallelic heterozygous variants, p.[(Pro648Arg)]; [(His932Tyr)] and p.[(Thr251Ile),(Pro587Leu)]; [(Arg943Cys)], were found in the three patients causing this homogeneous phenotype. Our report on a subset of unrelated patients, that showed a distinct autosomal recessive childhood-onset neuromyopathy with congenital cataracts and glaucoma, expands the clinical spectrum of POLG-related disorders. It also confirms the association between cataracts and neuropathy with variants in POLG. Early onset cataract is otherwise rare in POLG-related disorders and so far reported only in a few patients with the clinical pattern of distal myopathy or neuromyopathy.
Author(s): Castiglioni C, Fattori F, Udd B, De Los Angeles Avaria M, Suarez B, D'Amico A, Malandrini A, Carrozzo R, Verrigni D, Bertini E, Tasca G
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: European Journal of Human Genetics
Year: 2018
Volume: 26
Issue: 3
Pages: 367-373
Print publication date: 01/03/2018
Online publication date: 22/01/2018
Acceptance date: 23/08/2017
ISSN (print): 1018-4813
ISSN (electronic): 1476-5438
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41431-017-0003-4
DOI: 10.1038/s41431-017-0003-4
PubMed id: 29358615
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