1. Mild Neurological Phenotype Associated with Hypomorphic Variants in the Ataxia-Telangiectasia Mutated Gene.
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Caputi C, Federici G, Soddu S, Travaglini L, Piane M, Bertini E, Zanni G, and Leuzzi V
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Background: Ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T) is a progressive multisystemic neurodegenerative disease. The phenotypic spectrum includes conditions (variant A-T) with mild, late-onset, and atypical clinical presentations characterized by the prevalence of dyskinetic rather than ataxic features., Cases: We describe the clinical presentations of 3 siblings with early-onset truncal ataxia without obvious neurological deterioration or biological markers of classic A-T phenotype. We performed functional and genetic evaluation of 3 siblings with very mild neurological phenotype. Genetic evaluation with a next-generation sequencing panel for genes causative of cerebellar ataxia detected 2 known ATM gene variants, missense c.9023G>A p.(Arg3008His), and leaky splicing c.1066-6T>G variants. Functional studies showed mildly reduced ATM expression and residual kinase activity in the probands compared with healthy controls., Conclusions: These results suggest the importance of investigating ATM variants even in the presence of clinical and biological atypical cases to ensure specific therapeutic regimens and oncological surveillance in these patients., (© 2022 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.)
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- 2022
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