Table 1. Clinical data of the patients with a homozygous GRIN1 mutation from the present study and from Lemke et al. 5 .
Present family | Family 1 [5] | Family 2 [5] | |||||
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Variant | c.679G>C p.(Asp227His) | c.679G>C p.(Asp227His) | c.742C>T p.(Arg217Trp) | c.649C>T p.(Arg217Trp) | c.1666C>T p.(Gln556*) | c.1666C>T p.(Gln556*) | c.1666C>T p.(Gln556*) |
Sex | F | M | M | M | M | F | F |
Age at inclusion | 5.5y | 3y | 13.5y | 12y | † 5mo | † 12d | † 5d |
Seizure onset | No seizures | No seizures | No seizures | No seizures | 1st d | 1st d | 1st d |
Seizure type at onset | None | None | None | None | Myoclonic, clonic with desaturation, continuous | Clonic, continuous | Clonic, continuous |
Seizure outcome | None | None | None | None | Deceased from status epilepticus | Deceased due to ongoing seizures and desaturation | Deceased due to ongoing seizures |
EEG at onset | Normal | ND | 6 months of age: spikes during sleep | 10 months: diffuse spikes and waves during sleep | Burst suppression | Burst suppression | Burst suppression |
Development | Severe ID. No language or walking | Severe ID. No language or walking | Severe ID. No language or walking | Severe ID. No language or walking | No development until death | † 12d | † 5d |
Behavior | Autistic, stereotypic movements of the midline. | Autistic, stereotypic movements of the midline | Autistic agitated, hyperventilation, outbursts of laughing, stereotypic movements of the midline. Self-injury | Autistic, stereotypic movements of the midline. Agitated | — | — | — |
Neurological examination | Hypotonia | Hypotonia | Axial hypotonia, tetraspastic, distal amyotrophy, dystonic features of knees and ankles | Axial hypotonia, tetraspastic distal amyotrophy | Hypotonia at birth, later hypertonia | Hypertonia, opisthotonic posturing | No formal exam due to continuous convulsions |
Vision | Normal ERG | ND | Macular atrophy at ERG with normal visually evoked potential | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | |
Additional features | Frontal bossing, mild midface hypoplasia | Frontal bossing, left transverse palmar crease | Constipation | Constipation, gynecomastia, macroglossia, sleep disturbances | Hyperlaxity thumbs, gap between first and second toe | — | — |
Brain MRI | Mild atrophy, thin corpus callosum (18 m) | Normal (1y) | Normal (at 6 m) | Normal (at 10 m) | 1 s month: possible punctiform hemorrhage in thalami | TFE (no MRI): two small periventricular cysts | Post-mortem MRI: microcephaly, delayed formation of sulci and delayed myelinisation |
Abbreviations: d, day; EEG, electro encephalogram; ERG, electroretinogram, F, female; ID, intellectual deficiency; M, male; mo, month; ND, not done; TFE, transfontanellar echography; y, years.The reference cDNA and protein sequences used for numbering are NM_007327.3 and NP_015566.1, respectively. †Age at death.