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High frequency of the expanded C9ORF72 hexanucleotide repeat in familial and sporadic Greek ALS patients.

Mok, KY; Koutsis, G; Schottlaender, LV; Polke, J; Panas, M; Houlden, H; (2012) High frequency of the expanded C9ORF72 hexanucleotide repeat in familial and sporadic Greek ALS patients. Neurobioly of Aging , 33 (8) 1851.e1 - 1851.e5. 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2012.02.021. Green open access

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Abstract

An intronic expansion of a hexanucleotide GGGGCC repeat in the C9ORF72 gene has recently been shown to be an important cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in familial and sporadic cases. The frequency has only been defined in a small number of populations where the highest sporadic rate was identified in Finland (21.1%) and the lowest in mainland Italy (4.1%). We examined the C9ORF72 expansion in a series of 146 Greek ALS cases, 10.95% (n = 16) of cases carried the pathological expansion defined as greater than 30 repeats. In the 10 familial ALS probands, 50% (n = 5) of them carried a pathologically large expansion. In the remaining 136 sporadic ALS cases, 11 were carriers (8.2%). None of the 228 Greek controls carried an expanded repeat. The phenotype of our cases was spinal (13/16) or bulbar (3/16) ALS, the familial cases were all spinal ALS and none of our cases had behavioral frontotemporal dementia. Expansions in the C9ORF72 gene therefore represent a common cause of ALS in Greece and this test will be diagnostically very important to implement in the Greek population. The frequency is higher than other populations with the exception of Finland and this may be due to Greece being a relatively isolated population.

Type: Article
Title: High frequency of the expanded C9ORF72 hexanucleotide repeat in familial and sporadic Greek ALS patients.
Location: US
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2012.02.021
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2012.02...
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. PMCID: PMC3657168
Keywords: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Female, Genetic Markers, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetic Variation, Greece, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Prevalence, Proteins, Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid, Risk Factors
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 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 > Department of Neuromuscular Diseases
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/1399012
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