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A Novel Missense Mutation (W797R) in the Myophosphorylase Gene in Spanish Patients With McArdle Disease
Roberto Fernández, MS;
Carmen Navarro, MD;
Antonio L. Andreu, MD;
Claudio Bruno, MD;
Sara Shanske, PhD;
José Gámez, MD;
Susana Teijeira, MS;
Iñigo Hernández, MD;
Alfonso Teijeiro, MS;
José M. Fernández, MD;
Olimpia Musumeci, MD;
Salvatore DiMauro, MD
Arch Neurol. 2000;57:217-219.
Objective To investigate the degree of genetic heterogeneity of myophosphorylase deficiency (McArdle disease) in Spain through molecular studies of 10 new patients.
Design The coding sequence of the entire myophosphorylase gene was sequenced in DNA extracted from muscle and blood. Restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of polymerase chain reaction fragments was used to confirm and simplify detection of a novel mutation.
Setting A collaborative study between 2 university laboratories in Spain and the United States.
Results Five of the 10 patients harbored a novel missense mutation in exon 20, converting a tryptophan to an arginine (W797R). Three patients were homozygous for the "common" R49X mutation, and the remaining 2 patients were compound heterozygotes for R49X and a previously described missense mutation, G204S.
Conclusions The W797R missense mutation is the third novel mutation to be identified among Spanish patients. Its relative frequency suggests that it should be added to the R49X mutation in the molecular screening of McArdle disease in Spain.
From the H. Houston Merritt Clinical Research Center for Muscular Dystrophy and Related Diseases, Department of Neurology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY (Mr Fernández and Drs Andreu, Bruno, Shanske, Musumeci, and DiMauro); Departments of Pathology and Neuropathology (Messrs Fernández and Teijeiro, Dr Navarro, and Ms Teijeira) and Rheumatology (Dr Hernández), Hospital do Meixoeiro, Vigo, Spain; Centre d'Investigacions en Bioquimica i Biología Molecular (Dr Andreu) and Department of Neurology (Dr Gámez), Hospitals Vall d' Hebron, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Pediatrics, University of Genova, Istituto G. Gaslini, Genova, Italy (Dr Bruno); and Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Hospital Xeral-Cíes, Vigo, Spain (Dr Fernández).
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