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Case Reports
. 2024 Jul:124:107012.
doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2024.107012. Epub 2024 May 16.

Expanding the phenotypic and genotypic spectrum of DYT-TUBB4A with seven patients from India

Divyani Garg  1 , Vikram V Holla  2 , Jacky Ganguly  3 , Roopa Rajan  4 , Arti Saini  4 , Ayush Agarwal  4 , Divya M Radhakrishnan  4 , Purba Basu  3 , Banashree Mondal  3 , Debjyoti Dhar  2 , Nitish Kamble  2 , Ravi Yadav  2 , Babylakshmi Muthusamy  5 , Hrishikesh Kumar  3 , Achal Kumar Srivastava  4 , Pramod Kumar Pal  2
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Expanding the phenotypic and genotypic spectrum of DYT-TUBB4A with seven patients from India

Divyani Garg et al. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2024 Jul.

Abstract

Background: Variants in the TUBB4A gene are associated with dystonia (DYT-TUBB4A), Hypomyelination with Atrophy of the Basal Ganglia and Cerebellum (H-ABC) and spastic paraplegia. Phenotypes intermediate to these three broad phenotypes are also observed. These are rare disorders, and data from diverse populations remains limited. We report seven Indian cases with dystonia phenotype related to TUBB4A mutation.

Cases: Among these seven patients, age at onset ranged from 5 to 48 years. Five patients had cranio-cervical onset of dystonia. One patient had prominent parkinsonism with dystonia. Patients responded well to botulinum toxin injected for laryngeal, cervical and jaw dystonia. The patient with parkinsonism responded well to levodopa, albeit with development of dyskinesias. Apart from the common p.Arg2Gly variant in three patients with DYT-TUBB4A, other variants included p.Arg262Pro, p.Arg39Cys and p.Asp245Asn.

Conclusions: We report the first collection of cases with TUBB4A mutation from India. We expand the phenotype to include levodopa-responsive parkinsonism. Indian patients, consistent with global literature, harbor prominent adductor dysphonia, cervical and jaw dystonia, which responds well to botulinum treatment.

Keywords: Adductor dysphonia; Dystonia; Hypomyelination; TUBB4A.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of competing interest The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: Dr. Pal has received research grants from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Michael J. Fox Foundation and honoraria from the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society, and Movement Disorder Societies of Korea, Taiwan and Bangladesh.

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