1. Evidence of mosaicism in SPAST variant carriers in four French families
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William Camu, Guillaume Banneau, Samia Ait Said, Eric LeGuern, Christel Depienne, Bophara Kol, Caroline Rooryck, Clarisse Scherer-Gagou, Giovanni Stevanin, Laurène Tissier, Perrine Pennamen, Bénédicte Héron, Cyril Goizet, Marine Guillaud-Bataille, Chloé Angelini, Laboratoire Maladies Rares: Génétique et Métabolisme (Bordeaux) (U1211 INSERM/MRGM), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Groupe hospitalier Pellegrin-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Groupe hospitalier Pellegrin, Service de Génétique médicale [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Hôpital Gui de Chauliac, Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier), Unité Fonctionnelle de Génétique Clinique [CHU Pitié Salpétrière], Institut du Cerveau et de la Moëlle Epinière = Brain and Spine Institute (ICM), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Duisbourg-Essen, Service de Neuropédiatrie [CHU Trousseau], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-CHU Trousseau [APHP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers (CHU Angers), PRES Université Nantes Angers Le Mans (UNAM), École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), and Institut Fédératif de Biologie (IFB) - Hôpital Purpan
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Male ,MESH: Alleles ,Child ,Comparative Genomic Hybridization ,Female ,France ,Gene Frequency ,Heterozygote ,High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing ,Spastin ,Medizin ,Brief Communication ,Spastic Paraplegias ,03 medical and health sciences ,Genetic etiology ,Genetics ,Spastic ,Medicine ,Humans ,Diagnostic laboratory ,Genetics (clinical) ,Alleles ,0303 health sciences ,business.industry ,Mosaicism ,Spastic Paraplegia, Hereditary ,030305 genetics & heredity ,Homozygote ,Middle Aged ,Penetrance ,3. Good health ,Pedigree ,nervous system diseases ,Phenotype ,Somatic mosaicism ,Mutation ,business ,[SDV.MHEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology - Abstract
International audience; Hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSP) are heterogeneous disorders, with more than 70 causative genes. Variants in SPAST are the most frequent genetic etiology and are responsible for spastic paraplegia type 4 (SPG4). Age at onset can vary, even between patients from the same family, and incomplete penetrance is described. Somatic mosaicism is extremely rare with only three patients reported in the literature. We report here SPAST mosaic variants in four unrelated patients. We confirm that mosaicism in SPAST is a very rare event with only four identified cases on more than 300 patients with a SPAST variant previously described by our clinical diagnostic laboratory.
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- 2021
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