2019
Leigh syndrome caused by mutations in MTFMT is associated with a better prognosis
Hayhurst H, de Coo I, Piekutowska‐Abramczuk D, Alston C, Sharma S, Thompson K, Rius R, He L, Hopton S, Ploski R, Ciara E, Lake N, Compton A, Delatycki M, Verrips A, Bonnen P, Jones S, Morris A, Shakespeare D, Christodoulou J, Wesol‐Kucharska D, Rokicki D, Smeets H, Pronicka E, Thorburn D, Gorman G, McFarland R, Taylor R, Ng Y. Leigh syndrome caused by mutations in MTFMT is associated with a better prognosis. Annals Of Clinical And Translational Neurology 2019, 6: 515-524. PMID: 30911575, PMCID: PMC6414492, DOI: 10.1002/acn3.725.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPathogenic variantsLeigh syndromeSubcortical white matter abnormalitiesNew casesFrequent initial manifestationLast clinical reviewRetrospective cohort studyBasal ganglia changesWhite matter abnormalitiesRespiratory chain deficiencyBi-allelic pathogenic variantsMitochondrial methionyl-tRNA formyltransferaseMolecular genetic findingsMilder clinical phenotypeInitial manifestationBrainstem lesionsCohort studyMedian ageBetter prognosisChain deficiencyMotor symptomsClinical reviewDisease progressionMultiple respiratory chain deficiencyMuscle biopsy
2017
ATAD3 gene cluster deletions cause cerebellar dysfunction associated with altered mitochondrial DNA and cholesterol metabolism
Desai R, Frazier A, Durigon R, Patel H, Jones A, Rosa I, Lake N, Compton A, Mountford H, Tucker E, Mitchell A, Jackson D, Sesay A, Di Re M, van den Heuvel L, Burke D, Francis D, Lunke S, McGillivray G, Mandelstam S, Mochel F, Keren B, Jardel C, Turner A, Andrews P, Smeitink J, Spelbrink J, Heales S, Kohda M, Ohtake A, Murayama K, Okazaki Y, Lombès A, Holt I, Thorburn D, Spinazzola A. ATAD3 gene cluster deletions cause cerebellar dysfunction associated with altered mitochondrial DNA and cholesterol metabolism. Brain 2017, 140: 1595-1610. PMID: 28549128, PMCID: PMC5445257, DOI: 10.1093/brain/awx094.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsATAD3A geneHigh-throughput sequencing technologyIntegration of mitochondriaMitochondrial DNA organizationCholesterol homeostasisCellular cholesterol homeostasisSingle nucleotide polymorphism arrayMitochondrial DNA abnormalitiesNiemann-Pick type C diseaseNucleotide polymorphism arrayWhole-exome sequencing dataDNA organizationExome sequencing dataMitochondrial DNACausal genesCholesterol metabolismGenomic analysisGenomic rearrangementsSequencing technologiesHigh homologySequencing dataType C diseaseDrug-induced perturbationsGene cluster deletionsGenes