TY - JOUR
T1 - The spectrum of mutations in progranulin
T2 - A collaborative study screening 545 cases of neurodegeneration
AU - Yu, Chang En
AU - Bird, Thomas D.
AU - Bekris, Lynn M.
AU - Montine, Thomas J.
AU - Leverenz, James B.
AU - Steinbart, Ellen
AU - Galloway, Nichole M.
AU - Feldman, Howard
AU - Woltjer, Randall
AU - Miller, Carol A.
AU - Wood, Elisabeth Mc Carty
AU - Grossman, Murray
AU - McCluskey, Leo
AU - Clark, Christopher M.
AU - Neumann, Manuela
AU - Danek, Adrian
AU - Galasko, Douglas R.
AU - Arnold, Steven E.
AU - Chen-Plotkin, Alice
AU - Karydas, Anna
AU - Miller, Bruce L.
AU - Trojanowski, John Q.
AU - Lee, Virginia M.Y.
AU - Schellenberg, Gerard D.
AU - Van Deerlin, Vivianna M.
PY - 2010/2
Y1 - 2010/2
N2 - Background: Mutation in the progranulin gene (GRN) can cause frontotemporal dementia (FTD). However, it is unclear whether some rare FTD-related GRN variants are pathogenic and whether neurodegenerative disorders other than FTD can also be caused by GRN mutations. Objectives: To delineate the range of clinical presentations associated with GRN mutations and to define pathogenic candidacy of rare GRN variants. Design: Case-control study. Setting: Clinical and neuropathology dementia research studies at 8 academic centers. Participants: Four hundred thirty-four patients with FTD, including primary progressive aphasia, semantic dementia, FTD/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), FTD/ motor neuron disease, corticobasal syndrome/ corticobasal degeneration, progressive supranuclear palsy, Pick disease, dementia lacking distinctive histopathology, and pathologically confirmed cases of frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive inclusions (FTLD-U); and 111 non-FTD cases (controls) in which TDP-43 deposits were a prominent neuropathological feature, including subjects with ALS, Guam ALS and/or parkinsonism dementia complex, Guam dementia, Alzheimer disease, multiple system atrophy, and argyrophilic grain disease. Main Outcome Measures: Variants detected on sequencing of all 13 GRN exons and at least 80 base pairs of flanking introns, and their pathogenic candidacy determined by in silico and ex vivo splicing assays. Results: We identified 58 genetic variants that included 26 previously unknown changes. Twenty-four variants appeared to be pathogenic, including 8 novel mutations. The frequency of GRN mutations was 6.9% (30 of 434) of all FTD-spectrum cases, 21.4% (9 of 42) of cases with a pathological diagnosis of FTLD-U, 16.0% (28 of 175) of FTD-spectrum cases with a family history of a similar neurodegenerative disease, and 56.2% (9 of 16) of cases of FTLD-U with a family history. Conclusions: Pathogenic mutations were found only in FTD-spectrum cases and not in other related neurodegenerative diseases. Haploinsufficiency of GRN is the predominant mechanism leading to FTD.
AB - Background: Mutation in the progranulin gene (GRN) can cause frontotemporal dementia (FTD). However, it is unclear whether some rare FTD-related GRN variants are pathogenic and whether neurodegenerative disorders other than FTD can also be caused by GRN mutations. Objectives: To delineate the range of clinical presentations associated with GRN mutations and to define pathogenic candidacy of rare GRN variants. Design: Case-control study. Setting: Clinical and neuropathology dementia research studies at 8 academic centers. Participants: Four hundred thirty-four patients with FTD, including primary progressive aphasia, semantic dementia, FTD/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), FTD/ motor neuron disease, corticobasal syndrome/ corticobasal degeneration, progressive supranuclear palsy, Pick disease, dementia lacking distinctive histopathology, and pathologically confirmed cases of frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive inclusions (FTLD-U); and 111 non-FTD cases (controls) in which TDP-43 deposits were a prominent neuropathological feature, including subjects with ALS, Guam ALS and/or parkinsonism dementia complex, Guam dementia, Alzheimer disease, multiple system atrophy, and argyrophilic grain disease. Main Outcome Measures: Variants detected on sequencing of all 13 GRN exons and at least 80 base pairs of flanking introns, and their pathogenic candidacy determined by in silico and ex vivo splicing assays. Results: We identified 58 genetic variants that included 26 previously unknown changes. Twenty-four variants appeared to be pathogenic, including 8 novel mutations. The frequency of GRN mutations was 6.9% (30 of 434) of all FTD-spectrum cases, 21.4% (9 of 42) of cases with a pathological diagnosis of FTLD-U, 16.0% (28 of 175) of FTD-spectrum cases with a family history of a similar neurodegenerative disease, and 56.2% (9 of 16) of cases of FTLD-U with a family history. Conclusions: Pathogenic mutations were found only in FTD-spectrum cases and not in other related neurodegenerative diseases. Haploinsufficiency of GRN is the predominant mechanism leading to FTD.
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U2 - 10.1001/archneurol.2009.328
DO - 10.1001/archneurol.2009.328
M3 - Article
C2 - 20142524
AN - SCOPUS:76149123541
SN - 0003-9942
VL - 67
SP - 161
EP - 170
JO - Archives of Neurology
JF - Archives of Neurology
IS - 2
ER -