The mutation spectrum of Parkinson-disease-related genes in early-onset Parkinson's disease in ethnic Chinese

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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Recent genetic progress has shown many causative/risk genes linked to Parkinson's disease (PD), mainly in patients of European ancestry. The study aimed to investigate the PD-related genes and determine the mutational spectrum of early-onset PD in ethnic Chinese.

METHODS: In this study, whole-exome sequencing and/or gene dosage analysis were performed in 704 early-onset PD (EOPD) patients (onset age ≤45 years) and 1866 controls. Twenty-six PD-related genes and 20 other genes linked to neurodegenerative and lysosome diseases were analysed.

RESULTS: Eighty-two (11.6%, 82/704) EOPD patients carrying rare pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants in PD-related genes were identified. The mutation frequency in autosomal recessive inheritance EOPD (42.9%, 27/63) was much higher than that in autosomal dominant inheritance EOPD (0.9%, 12/110) or sporadic EOPD (8.1%, 43/531). Bi-allelic mutations in PRKN were the most frequent, accounting for 5.1% of EOPD cases. Three common pathogenic variants, p.A53V in SNCA, p.G284R in PRKN and p.P53Afs*38 in CHCHD2, occur exclusively in Asians. The putative damaging variants from GBA, PRKN, DJ1, PLA2G6 and GCH1 contributed to the collective risk for EOPD. Notably, the protein-truncating variants in CHCHD2 were enriched in EOPD, especially for p.P53Afs*38, which was also found in three patients from an independent cohort of patients with late-onset PD (n = 1300). Functional experiments confirmed that truncated CHCHD2 variants cause loss of function and are linked to mitochondrial dysfunction.

CONCLUSIONS: Our study reveals that the genetic spectrum of EOPD in Chinese, which may help develop genetic scanning strategies, provided more evidence supporting CHCHD2 in PD.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:29

Enthalten in:

European journal of neurology - 29(2022), 11 vom: 18. Nov., Seite 3218-3228

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chen, Yong-Ping [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Shi-Hui [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Guo-Hui [VerfasserIn]
Hou, Yan-Bing [VerfasserIn]
Gu, Xiao-Jing [VerfasserIn]
Ou, Ru-Wei [VerfasserIn]
Shen, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Song, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Xue-Ping [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Bi [VerfasserIn]
Cao, Bei [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Ling-Yu [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Ming-Ming [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Fei-Fei [VerfasserIn]
Wei, Qian-Qian [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Kun-Cheng [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Jun-Yu [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Tian-Mi [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Zheng [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Jiao [VerfasserIn]
Cheng, Yang-Fan [VerfasserIn]
Xiao, Yi [VerfasserIn]
Su, Wei-Ming [VerfasserIn]
Feng, Fei [VerfasserIn]
Cai, Ying-Ying [VerfasserIn]
Li, Shi-Rong [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Tao [VerfasserIn]
Yuan, Xiao-Qin [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Qing-Qing [VerfasserIn]
Shao, Na [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Sha [VerfasserIn]
Shang, Hui-Fang [VerfasserIn]

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Burden analysis
CHCHD2
CHCHD2 protein, human
DNA-Binding Proteins
Journal Article
Mutation spectrum
Parkinson's disease
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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Date Completed 10.10.2022

Date Revised 07.12.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/ene.15509

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM343814056