Dana Marafi, Nina Kozar, Ruizhi Duan, Stephen Bradley, Kenji Yokochi, Fuad Al Mutairi, Nebal Waill Saadi, Sandra Whalen, Theresa Brunet, Urania Kotzaeridou, Daniela Choukair, Boris Keren, Caroline Nava, Mitsuhiro Kato, Hiroshi Arai, Tawfiq Froukh, Eissa Ali Faqeih, Ali M AlAsmari, Mohammed M Saleh, Filippo Pinto E Vairo, Pavel N Pichurin, Eric W Klee, Christopher T Schmitz, Christopher M Grochowski, Tadahiro Mitani, Isabella Herman, Daniel G Calame, Jawid M Fatih, Haowei Du, Zeynep Coban-Akdemir, Davut Pehlivan, Shalini N Jhangiani, Richard A Gibbs, Satoko Miyatake, Naomichi Matsumoto, Laura J Wagstaff, Jennifer E Posey, James R Lupski, Dies Meijer, Matias Wagner
The leucine-rich glioma-inactivated (LGI) family consists of four highly conserved paralogous genes, LGI1-4, that are highly expressed in mammalian central and/or peripheral nervous systems. LGI1 antibodies are detected in subjects with autoimmune limbic encephalitis and peripheral nerve hyperexcitability syndromes (PNHSs) such as Isaacs and Morvan syndromes. Pathogenic variations of LGI1 and LGI4 are associated with neurological disorders as disease traits including familial temporal lobe epilepsy and neurogenic arthrogryposis multiplex congenita 1 with myelin defects, respectively...
September 1, 2022: American Journal of Human Genetics