Genetic landscape of congenital insensitivity to pain and hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathies

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Congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP) and hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathies (HSAN) are clinically and genetically heterogeneous disorders exclusively or predominantly affecting the sensory and autonomic neurons. Due to the rarity of the diseases and findings based mainly on single case reports or small case series, knowledge about these disorders is limited. Here, we describe the molecular workup of a large international cohort of CIP/HSAN patients including patients from normally under-represented countries. We identify 80 previously unreported pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants in a total of 73 families in the >20 known CIP/HSAN-associated genes. The data expand the spectrum of disease-relevant alterations in CIP/HSAN, including novel variants in previously rarely recognized entities such as ATL3-, FLVCR1- and NGF-associated neuropathies and previously under-recognized mutation types such as larger deletions. In silico predictions, heterologous expression studies, segregation analyses and metabolic tests helped to overcome limitations of current variant classification schemes that often fail to categorize a variant as disease-related or benign. The study sheds light on the genetic causes and disease-relevant changes within individual genes in CIP/HSAN. This is becoming increasingly important with emerging clinical trials investigating subtype or gene-specific treatment strategies.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:146

Enthalten in:

Brain : a journal of neurology - 146(2023), 12 vom: 01. Dez., Seite 4880-4890

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lischka, Annette [VerfasserIn]
Eggermann, Katja [VerfasserIn]
Record, Christopher J [VerfasserIn]
Dohrn, Maike F [VerfasserIn]
Laššuthová, Petra [VerfasserIn]
Kraft, Florian [VerfasserIn]
Begemann, Matthias [VerfasserIn]
Dey, Daniela [VerfasserIn]
Eggermann, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Beijer, Danique [VerfasserIn]
Šoukalová, Jana [VerfasserIn]
Laura, Matilde [VerfasserIn]
Rossor, Alexander M [VerfasserIn]
Mazanec, Radim [VerfasserIn]
Van Lent, Jonas [VerfasserIn]
Tomaselli, Pedro J [VerfasserIn]
Ungelenk, Martin [VerfasserIn]
Debus, Karlien Y [VerfasserIn]
Feely, Shawna M E [VerfasserIn]
Gläser, Dieter [VerfasserIn]
Jagadeesh, Sujatha [VerfasserIn]
Martin, Madelena [VerfasserIn]
Govindaraj, Geeta M [VerfasserIn]
Singhi, Pratibha [VerfasserIn]
Baineni, Revanth [VerfasserIn]
Biswal, Niranjan [VerfasserIn]
Ibarra-Ramírez, Marisol [VerfasserIn]
Bonduelle, Maryse [VerfasserIn]
Gess, Burkhard [VerfasserIn]
Romero Sánchez, Juan [VerfasserIn]
Suthar, Renu [VerfasserIn]
Udani, Vrajesh [VerfasserIn]
Nalini, Atchayaram [VerfasserIn]
Unnikrishnan, Gopikrishnan [VerfasserIn]
Marques, Wilson [VerfasserIn]
Mercier, Sandra [VerfasserIn]
Procaccio, Vincent [VerfasserIn]
Bris, Céline [VerfasserIn]
Suresh, Beena [VerfasserIn]
Reddy, Vaishnavi [VerfasserIn]
Skorupinska, Mariola [VerfasserIn]
Bonello-Palot, Nathalie [VerfasserIn]
Mochel, Fanny [VerfasserIn]
Dahl, Georg [VerfasserIn]
Sasidharan, Karthika [VerfasserIn]
Devassikutty, Fiji M [VerfasserIn]
Nampoothiri, Sheela [VerfasserIn]
Rodovalho Doriqui, Maria J [VerfasserIn]
Müller-Felber, Wolfgang [VerfasserIn]
Vill, Katharina [VerfasserIn]
Haack, Tobias B [VerfasserIn]
Dufke, Andreas [VerfasserIn]
Abele, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Stucka, Rolf [VerfasserIn]
Siddiqi, Saima [VerfasserIn]
Ullah, Noor [VerfasserIn]
Spranger, Stephanie [VerfasserIn]
Chiabrando, Deborah [VerfasserIn]
Bolgül, Behiye S [VerfasserIn]
Parman, Yesim [VerfasserIn]
Seeman, Pavel [VerfasserIn]
Lampert, Angelika [VerfasserIn]
Schulz, Jörg B [VerfasserIn]
Wood, John N [VerfasserIn]
Cox, James J [VerfasserIn]
Auer-Grumbach, Michaela [VerfasserIn]
Timmerman, Vincent [VerfasserIn]
de Winter, Jonathan [VerfasserIn]
Themistocleous, Andreas C [VerfasserIn]
Shy, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Bennett, David L [VerfasserIn]
Baets, Jonathan [VerfasserIn]
Hübner, Christian A [VerfasserIn]
Leipold, Enrico [VerfasserIn]
Züchner, Stephan [VerfasserIn]
Elbracht, Miriam [VerfasserIn]
Çakar, Arman [VerfasserIn]
Senderek, Jan [VerfasserIn]
Hornemann, Thorsten [VerfasserIn]
Woods, C Geoffrey [VerfasserIn]
Reilly, Mary M [VerfasserIn]
Kurth, Ingo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

CIP
Genetics
HSAN
HSN
Journal Article
Neuropathies
Pain
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 04.12.2023

Date Revised 13.03.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/brain/awad328

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM362658862