Parkin is the most common causative gene in a cohort of mainland Chinese patients with sporadic early-onset Parkinson's disease.

Brain and Behavior
Yanyan JiangZhaoxia Wang

Abstract

Genetic mutations associated with early-onset Parkinson's disease (EOPD) vary widely among different ethnicities. We detected the genes associated with EOPD in a Chinese cohort using next-generation sequencing (NGS) combined with multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) and analyzed the phenotypic characteristics of the mutation carriers. Cohort of 23 sporadic EOPD patients (onset age ≤ 45 years) were recruited. Genetic causes were identified by a targeted NGS panel containing 136 known extrapyramidal disease-causative genes. Multiplications or deletions of PD-causing genes were detected using the MLPA method. Demographic and clinical data were obtained, analyzed, and compared between patients with and those without Parkin gene variants. We identified 14 pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants (12 in Parkin, 1 in LRRK2, and 1 in VPS13C) in 10 patients (43.5%) and 8 rare variants of uncertain significance in 9 patients (39.1%). Parkin (34.8%) was the most common causative gene among our patients cohort, and exon deletion (62.5%) was the main type of variant. Patients with Parkin mutations had a younger age of onset, longer delay in diagnosis, slower disease progression, higher frequency of hyperreflexia, fatigue,...Continue Reading

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