Anoctamin-5 related muscle disease : clinical and genetic findings in a large European cohort

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Anoctamin-5 related muscle disease is caused by biallelic pathogenic variants in the anoctamin-5 gene (ANO5) and shows variable clinical phenotypes: limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 12 (LGMD-R12), distal muscular dystrophy type 3 (MMD3), pseudometabolic myopathy or asymptomatic hyperCKaemia. In this retrospective, observational, multicentre study we gathered a large European cohort of patients with ANO5-related muscle disease to study the clinical and genetic spectrum and genotype-phenotype correlations. We included 234 patients from 212 different families, contributed by 15 centres from 11 European countries. The largest subgroup was LGMD-R12 (52.6%), followed by pseudometabolic myopathy (20.5%), asymptomatic hyperCKaemia (13.7%) and MMD3 (13.2%). In all subgroups, there was a male predominance, except for pseudometabolic myopathy. Median age at symptom onset of all patients was 33 years (range 23-45 years). The most frequent symptoms at onset were myalgia (35.3%) and exercise intolerance (34.1%), while at last clinical evaluation most frequent symptoms and signs were proximal lower limb weakness (56.9%) and atrophy (38.1%), myalgia (45.1%) and atrophy of the medial gastrocnemius muscle (38.4%). Most patients remained ambulatory (79.4%). At last evaluation, 45.9% of patients with LGMD-R12 additionally had distal weakness in the lower limbs and 48.4% of patients with MMD3 also showed proximal lower limb weakness. Age at symptom onset did not differ significantly between males and females. However, males had a higher risk of using walking aids earlier (P = 0.035). No significant association was identified between sportive versus non-sportive lifestyle before symptom onset and age at symptom onset nor any of the motor outcomes. Cardiac and respiratory involvement that would require treatment occurred very rarely. Ninety-nine different pathogenic variants were identified in ANO5 of which 25 were novel. The most frequent variants were c.191dupA (p.Asn64Lysfs*15) (57.7%) and c.2272C>T (p.Arg758Cys) (11.1%). Patients with two loss-of function variants used walking aids at a significantly earlier age (P = 0.037). Patients homozygous for the c.2272C>T variant showed a later use of walking aids compared to patients with other variants (P = 0.043). We conclude that there was no correlation of the clinical phenotype with the specific genetic variants, and that LGMD-R12 and MMD3 predominantly affect males who have a significantly worse motor outcome. Our study provides useful information for clinical follow up of the patients and for the design of clinical trials with novel therapeutic agents.

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Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

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2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:146

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Brain : a journal of neurology - 146(2023), 9 vom: 01. Sept., Seite 3800-3815

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

de Bruyn, Alexander [VerfasserIn]
Montagnese, Federica [VerfasserIn]
Holm-Yildiz, Sonja [VerfasserIn]
Scharff Poulsen, Nanna [VerfasserIn]
Stojkovic, Tanya [VerfasserIn]
Behin, Anthony [VerfasserIn]
Palmio, Johanna [VerfasserIn]
Jokela, Manu [VerfasserIn]
De Bleecker, Jan L [VerfasserIn]
de Visser, Marianne [VerfasserIn]
van der Kooi, Anneke J [VerfasserIn]
Ten Dam, Leroy [VerfasserIn]
Domínguez González, Cristina [VerfasserIn]
Maggi, Lorenzo [VerfasserIn]
Gallone, Annamaria [VerfasserIn]
Kostera-Pruszczyk, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Macias, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Łusakowska, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Nedkova, Velina [VerfasserIn]
Olive, Montse [VerfasserIn]
Álvarez-Velasco, Rodrigo [VerfasserIn]
Wanschitz, Julia [VerfasserIn]
Paradas, Carmen [VerfasserIn]
Mavillard, Fabiola [VerfasserIn]
Querin, Giorgia [VerfasserIn]
Fernández-Eulate, Gorka [VerfasserIn]
Quinlivan, Ros [VerfasserIn]
Walter, Maggie C [VerfasserIn]
Depuydt, Christophe E [VerfasserIn]
Udd, Bjarne [VerfasserIn]
Vissing, John [VerfasserIn]
Schoser, Benedikt [VerfasserIn]
Claeys, Kristl G [VerfasserIn]

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ANO5 protein, human
Anoctaminopathy
Anoctamins
Clinical trials
Journal Article
Multicenter Study
Natural history
Observational Study
Treatment

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Date Completed 04.09.2023

Date Revised 07.09.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/brain/awad088

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NLM354188593