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. 2022 Dec;24(12):2453-2463.
doi: 10.1016/j.gim.2022.08.007. Epub 2022 Oct 28.

Genetic and clinical landscape of childhood cerebellar hypoplasia and atrophy

Masamune Sakamoto  1 Kazuhiro Iwama  1 Masayuki Sasaki  2 Akihiko Ishiyama  2 Hirofumi Komaki  2 Takashi Saito  2 Eri Takeshita  2 Yuko Shimizu-Motohashi  2 Kazuhiro Haginoya  3 Tomoko Kobayashi  4 Tomohide Goto  5 Yu Tsuyusaki  5 Mizue Iai  5 Kenji Kurosawa  6 Hitoshi Osaka  7 Jun Tohyama  8 Yu Kobayashi  8 Nobuhiko Okamoto  9 Yume Suzuki  10 Satoko Kumada  11 Kenji Inoue  11 Hideaki Mashimo  11 Atsuko Arisaka  11 Ichiro Kuki  12 Harumi Saijo  13 Kenji Yokochi  14 Mitsuhiro Kato  15 Yuji Inaba  16 Yuko Gomi  17 Shinji Saitoh  18 Kentaro Shirai  19 Masafumi Morimoto  20 Yuishin Izumi  21 Yoriko Watanabe  22 Shin-Ichiro Nagamitsu  23 Yasunari Sakai  24 Shinobu Fukumura  25 Kazuhiro Muramatsu  26 Tomomi Ogata  27 Keitaro Yamada  28 Keiko Ishigaki  29 Kyoko Hirasawa  29 Konomi Shimoda  30 Manami Akasaka  31 Kosuke Kohashi  32 Takafumi Sakakibara  33 Masashi Ikuno  34 Noriko Sugino  35 Takahiro Yonekawa  36 Semra Gürsoy  37 Tayfun Cinleti  38 Chong Ae Kim  39 Keng Wee Teik  40 Chan Mei Yan  40 Muzhirah Haniffa  40 Chihiro Ohba  41 Shuuichi Ito  42 Hirotomo Saitsu  43 Ken Saida  41 Naomi Tsuchida  44 Yuri Uchiyama  44 Eriko Koshimizu  41 Atsushi Fujita  41 Kohei Hamanaka  41 Kazuharu Misawa  45 Satoko Miyatake  46 Takeshi Mizuguchi  41 Noriko Miyake  47 Naomichi Matsumoto  48
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Genetic and clinical landscape of childhood cerebellar hypoplasia and atrophy

Masamune Sakamoto et al. Genet Med. 2022 Dec.
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Abstract

Purpose: Cerebellar hypoplasia and atrophy (CBHA) in children is an extremely heterogeneous group of disorders, but few comprehensive genetic studies have been reported. Comprehensive genetic analysis of CBHA patients may help differentiating atrophy and hypoplasia and potentially improve their prognostic aspects.

Methods: Patients with CBHA in 176 families were genetically examined using exome sequencing. Patients with disease-causing variants were clinically evaluated.

Results: Disease-causing variants were identified in 96 of the 176 families (54.5%). After excluding 6 families, 48 patients from 42 families were categorized as having syndromic associations with CBHA, whereas the remaining 51 patients from 48 families had isolated CBHA. In 51 patients, 26 aberrant genes were identified, of which, 20 (76.9%) caused disease in 1 family each. The most prevalent genes were CACNA1A, ITPR1, and KIF1A. Of the 26 aberrant genes, 21 and 1 were functionally annotated to atrophy and hypoplasia, respectively. CBHA+S was more clinically severe than CBHA-S. Notably, ARG1 and FOLR1 variants were identified in 2 families, leading to medical treatments.

Conclusion: A wide genetic and clinical diversity of CBHA was revealed through exome sequencing in this cohort, which highlights the importance of comprehensive genetic analyses. Furthermore, molecular-based treatment was available for 2 families.

Keywords: Cerebellar atrophy; Cerebellar hypoplasia; Disease-causing variants; Exome; Treatment.

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