Mai Kikumoto, Takashi Kurashige, Tomohiko Ohshita, Kodai Kume, Osamu Kikumoto, Tomohisa Nezu, Shiro Aoki, Kazuhide Ochi, Hiroyuki Morino, Eiichi Nomura, Hiroshi Yamashita, Mayumi Kaneko, Hirofumi Maruyama, Hideshi Kawakami
Pontine autosomal dominant microangiopathy and leukoencephalopathy is one of hereditary cerebral small vessel diseases caused by pathogenic variants in COL4A1 3'UTR and characterized by multiple small infarctions in the pons. We attempted to establish radiological features of this disease. We performed whole exome sequencing and Sanger sequencing in one family with undetermined familial small vessel disease, followed by clinicoradiological assessment and a postmortem examination. We subsequently investigated clinicoradiological features of patients in a juvenile cerebral vessel disease cohort and searched for radiological features similar to those found in the aforementioned family...
2023: Brain communications