Vincenzo Salpietro, Belen Perez-Dueñas, Kosuke Nakashima, Victoria San Antonio-Arce, Andreea Manole, Stephanie Efthymiou, Jana Vandrovcova, Conceicao Bettencourt, Niccolò E Mencacci, Christine Klein, Michy P Kelly, Ceri H Davies, Haruhide Kimura, Alfons Macaya, Henry Houlden
BACKGROUND: We investigated a family that presented with an infantile-onset chorea-predominant movement disorder, negative for NKX2-1, ADCY5, and PDE10A mutations. METHODS: Phenotypic characterization and trio whole-exome sequencing was carried out in the family. RESULTS: We identified a homozygous mutation affecting the GAF-B domain of the 3',5'-cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase PDE2A gene (c.1439A>G; p.Asp480Gly) as the candidate novel genetic cause of chorea in the proband...
March 2018: Movement Disorders: Official Journal of the Movement Disorder Society