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Familial Parkinsonism and Ophthalmoplegia From a Mutation in the Mitochondrial DNA Helicase Twinkle
Robert H. Baloh, MD, PhD;
Ezequiel Salavaggione, PhD;
Jeffrey Milbrandt, MD, PhD;
Alan Pestronk, MD
Arch Neurol. 2007;64(7):998-1000.
Objective To describe the clinical phenotype and genetic basis of a family with autosomal dominant progressive external ophthalmoplegia and parkinsonism from a Twinkle mutation.
Design All coding exons of POLG1, Twinkle (aka C10ORF2, PEO1), and ANT1 (SLC25A4) were sequenced in the proband with targeted sequencing of the Twinkle gene in all additional subjects.
Subjects Members of a 3-generation family followed up in a neuromuscular disease center for dominantly inherited progressive external ophthalmoplegia.
Results We identified a heterozygous G1121A mutation (R374Q) in exon 1 of Twinkle that segregated with the disease phenotype in all affected family members. No pathogenic mutations were present in POLG1 or ANT1.
Conclusion This finding broadens the clinical spectrum of Twinkle gene mutations and further implicates loss of mitochondrial DNA integrity in the pathogenesis of Parkinson disease.
Author Affiliations: Departments of Neurology (Drs Baloh, Milbrandt, and Pestronk), and of Pathology (Drs Salavaggione and Milbrandt), and Hope Center for Neurological Diseases (Drs Baloh, Milbrandt, and Pestronk), Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri.
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