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Evaluating the causality of novel sequence variants in the prion protein gene by example

Mok, TH; Koriath, C; Jaunmuktane, Z; Campbell, T; Joiner, S; Wadsworth, JDF; Hosszu, LLP; ... Mead, S; + view all (2018) Evaluating the causality of novel sequence variants in the prion protein gene by example. Neurobiology of Aging , 71 265.e1-265.e7. 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2018.05.011. Green open access

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Abstract

The estimation of pathogenicity and penetrance of novel prion protein gene (PRNP) variants presents significant challenges, particularly in the absence of family history, which precludes the application of Mendelian segregation. Moreover, the ambiguities of prion disease pathophysiology renders conventional in silico predictions inconclusive. Here, we describe 2 patients with rapid cognitive decline progressing to akinetic mutism and death within 10 weeks of symptom onset, both of whom possessed the novel T201S variant in PRNP. Clinically, both satisfied diagnostic criteria for probable sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and in one, the diagnosis was confirmed by neuropathology. While computational analyses predicted that T201S was possibly deleterious, molecular strain typing, prion protein structural considerations, and calculations leveraging large-scale population data (gnomAD) indicate that T201S is at best either of low penetrance or nonpathogenic. Thus, we illustrate the utility of harnessing multiple lines of prion disease-specific evidence in the evaluation of the T201S variant, which may be similarly applied to assess other novel variants in PRNP.

Type: Article
Title: Evaluating the causality of novel sequence variants in the prion protein gene by example
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2018.05.011
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2018.05.0...
Language: English
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Keywords: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Inherited prion disease, Novel gene variant interpretation, Prion protein, Rare gene variant
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Institute of Prion Diseases
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Institute of Prion Diseases > MRC Prion Unit at UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Clinical and Movement Neurosciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Neurodegenerative Diseases
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10053532
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