DEPDC5 mutations in families presenting as autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy
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Abstract
Objective: To study the prevalence of DEPDC5 mutations in a series of 30 small European families with a phenotype compatible with autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (ADNFLE).
Methods: Thirty unrelated families referred with ADNFLE were recruited in France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, and Norway. Whole-exome sequencing was performed in 10 probands and direct sequencing of the DEPDC5 coding sequence in 20 probands. Testing for nonsense-mediated messenger RNA decay (NMD) was performed in lymphoblastic cells.
Results: Exome sequencing revealed a splice acceptor mutation (c.2355-2A>G) in DEPDC5 in the proband of a German family. In addition, 3 nonsense DEPDC5 mutations (p.Arg487*, p.Arg1087*, and p.Trp1369*) were detected in the probands of 2 French and one Belgian family. The nonsense mutations p.Arg487* and p.Arg1087* were targeted by NMD, leading to the degradation of the mutated transcripts. At the clinical level, 78% of the patients with DEPDC5 mutations were drug resistant.
Conclusions: DEPDC5 loss-of-function mutations were found in 13% of the families with a presentation of ADNFLE. The rate of drug resistance was high in patients with DEPDC5 mutations. Small ADNFLE pedigrees with DEPDC5 mutations might actually represent a part of the broader familial focal epilepsy with variable foci phenotype.
GLOSSARY
- ADNFLE=
- autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy;
- dbSNP=
- Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Database;
- DEPDC5=
- DEP domain containing 5;
- FFEVF=
- familial focal epilepsy with variable foci;
- NFLE=
- nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy;
- NMD=
- nonsense-mediated messenger RNA decay
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- Received July 8, 2013.
- Accepted in final form March 7, 2014.
- © 2014 American Academy of Neurology
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