Screening study of TUBB4A in isolated dystonia

Franca Vulinovic; Susen Schaake; Aloysius Domingo; Kishore Raj Kumar; Giovanni Defazio; Pablo Mir; Kristina Simonyan; Laurie J. Ozelius; Norbert Brüggemann; Sun Ju Chung; Aleksandar Rakovic; Katja Lohmann; Christine Klein

doi:10.1016/j.parkreldis.2017.06.001

Screening study of TUBB4A in isolated dystonia

Franca Vulinovic, Susen Schaake, Aloysius Domingo, Kishore Raj Kumar, Giovanni Defazio, Pablo Mir, Kristina Simonyan, Laurie J. Ozelius, Norbert Brüggemann, Sun Ju Chung, Aleksandar Rakovic, Katja Lohmann, Christine Klein^*

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Abstract

Mutations in TUBB4A have been identified to cause a wide phenotypic spectrum ranging from hereditary generalized dystonia with whispering dysphonia (DYT4) to the leukodystrophy hypomyelination syndrome with atrophy of the basal ganglia and cerebellum (H-ABC). To test for the contribution of TUBB4A mutations in different ethnicities (Spanish, Italian, Korean, Japanese), we screened 492 isolated dystonia cases for mutations in this gene and for the first time determined TUBB4A copy number variations in 336 dystonia patients. A potentially pathogenic rare 3bp-in-frame deletion was found in a patient with cervical dystonia but no copy number variations were detected in this study, suggesting that TUBB4A mutations exceedingly rarely contribute to the etiology of isolated dystonia.

Original language	English
Journal	Parkinsonism and Related Disorders
Volume	41
Pages (from-to)	118-120
Number of pages	3
ISSN	1353-8020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parkreldis.2017.06.001
Publication status	Published - 01.08.2017

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CK is the recipient of a career development award from the Hermann and Lilly Schilling Foundation and receives funding from the DFG (KL1134/13-1).

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SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

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