Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker Disease Presenting as Late-Onset Slowly Progressive Spinocerebellar Ataxia, and Comparative Case Series with Neuropathology.

Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease ataxia prion disease spinocerebellar ataxia

Journal

Movement disorders clinical practice
ISSN: 2330-1619
Titre abrégé: Mov Disord Clin Pract
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101630279

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
23 Jan 2024
Historique:
revised: 11 12 2023
received: 07 06 2023
accepted: 03 01 2024
medline: 23 1 2024
pubmed: 23 1 2024
entrez: 23 1 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Genetic prion diseases, including Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease (GSS), are extremely rare, fatal neurodegenerative disorders, often associated with progressive ataxia and cognitive/neuropsychiatric symptoms. GSS typically presents as a rapidly progressive cerebellar ataxia, associated with cognitive decline. Late-onset cases are rare. To compare a novel GSS phenotype with six other cases and present pathological findings from a single case. Case series of seven GSS patients, one proceeding to autopsy. Case 1 developed slowly progressive gait difficulties at age 71, mimicking a spinocerebellar ataxia, with a family history of balance problems in old age. Genome sequencing revealed a heterozygous c.392G > A (p.G131E) pathogenic variant and a c.395A > G resulting in p.129 M/V polymorphism in the PRNP gene. Probability analyses considering family history, phenotype, and a similar previously reported point mutation (p.G131V) suggest p.G131E as a new pathogenic variant. Clinical features and imaging of this case are compared with those six additional cases harboring p.P102L mutations. Autopsy findings of a case are described and were consistent with the prion pathology of GSS. We describe a patient with GSS with a novel p.G131E mutation in the PRNP gene, presenting with a late-onset, slowly progressive phenotype, mimicking a spinocerebellar ataxia, and six additional cases with the typical P102L mutation.

Sections du résumé

BACKGROUND BACKGROUND
Genetic prion diseases, including Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease (GSS), are extremely rare, fatal neurodegenerative disorders, often associated with progressive ataxia and cognitive/neuropsychiatric symptoms. GSS typically presents as a rapidly progressive cerebellar ataxia, associated with cognitive decline. Late-onset cases are rare.
OBJECTIVE OBJECTIVE
To compare a novel GSS phenotype with six other cases and present pathological findings from a single case.
METHODS METHODS
Case series of seven GSS patients, one proceeding to autopsy.
RESULTS RESULTS
Case 1 developed slowly progressive gait difficulties at age 71, mimicking a spinocerebellar ataxia, with a family history of balance problems in old age. Genome sequencing revealed a heterozygous c.392G > A (p.G131E) pathogenic variant and a c.395A > G resulting in p.129 M/V polymorphism in the PRNP gene. Probability analyses considering family history, phenotype, and a similar previously reported point mutation (p.G131V) suggest p.G131E as a new pathogenic variant. Clinical features and imaging of this case are compared with those six additional cases harboring p.P102L mutations. Autopsy findings of a case are described and were consistent with the prion pathology of GSS.
CONCLUSIONS CONCLUSIONS
We describe a patient with GSS with a novel p.G131E mutation in the PRNP gene, presenting with a late-onset, slowly progressive phenotype, mimicking a spinocerebellar ataxia, and six additional cases with the typical P102L mutation.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38258626
doi: 10.1002/mdc3.13976
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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Subventions

Organisme : NINDS NIH HHS
ID : K23NS118045
Pays : United States
Organisme : CDC HHS
ID : 1NU38CK000486
Pays : United States

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© 2024 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.

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Auteurs

Christopher D Stephen (CD)

Ataxia Center, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Cognitive Behavioral Neurology Unit, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Laboratory for Neuroanatomy and Cerebellar Neurobiology, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Claudio Melo de Gusmao (CM)

Movement Disorders Division, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Department of Neurology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

Sharan R Srinivasan (SR)

Movement Disorders Division, Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Abby Olsen (A)

Movement Disorders Division, Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh and UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Fernando Freua (F)

Movement Disorders Division, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Fernando Kok (F)

Movement Disorders Division, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Renata Montes Garcia Barbosa (R)

Movement Disorders Division, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Jin Yun Helen Chen (JYH)

Neurogenetics Unit, Department of Neurology, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
C.S. Kubik Laboratory of Neuropathology, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Brian S Appleby (BS)

The National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Thomas Prior (T)

The National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Matthew P Frosch (MP)

C.S. Kubik Laboratory of Neuropathology, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Jeremy D Schmahmann (JD)

Ataxia Center, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Cognitive Behavioral Neurology Unit, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Laboratory for Neuroanatomy and Cerebellar Neurobiology, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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