Table 1.
Individual | A:II:1 (patient 1) | A:II:2 (patient 2) | B:II:1 (patient 3) |
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Gender | M | M | F |
Parental consanguinity | Reported negative | Reported negative | + |
Current age or age at death | 34 yr | 32 yra | 16 yra |
Circumstances of death | — | Cardiac arrest/respiratory failure | Respiratory failure |
ADPRHL2 Mutation | |||
Genomic position (hg19) | Chr1: 36558899T>G | Chr1: 36558899T>G | Chr1: 36554582G>T |
cDNA | NM_017825: c.1004T>G | NM_017825: c.1004T>G | NM_017825: c.77G>T |
Protein | p.Val335Gly | p.Val335Gly | p.Cys26Phe |
Clinical features | |||
Age at onset | 13 yr | 15 yr | 15 mo |
Symptoms at onset | Walking instability and intermittent lateropulsion | Fatigue and instability during walking | Febrile seizures |
Psychomotor development | Normal | Normal | Normal speech, moderate intellectual disability (6 yr) |
General development | Normal | Normal | Growth retardation for which growth hormones were supplied |
Gait | Weakness of foot dorsiflexors, drop foot, and mild spasticity | Foot dorsiflexor weakness, drop foot, mild spasticity, and instability; later also affected by fracture | Weakness of foot dorsiflexors, drop foot |
Muscle atrophy | Moderate atrophy of distal third of upper and lower limbs | Moderate atrophy of distal upper and lower limbs and mild proximal atrophy | Moderate atrophy of intrinsic hand muscles (10 yr), mild atrophy of distal lower limbs |
Proximal strength upper limb | 5 | 5 | 5 |
Distal strength upper limb | 4 | 2–4 | 2/5 to 4-/5 |
Proximal strength lower limb | 5 | 5 | 5 |
Distal strength lower limb | 1–2 | 1–3 | 4-/5 to 5/5 |
Reflexes upper limb | Normal | Diminished | Normal |
Reflexes lower limb | Normal | Distally diminished | Normal |
Sensory involvement | Hypoesthesia in tip toes, deep position, and vibration sense severely diminished in lower legs and hands | Hypoesthesia and loss of vibration sense in legs | - |
Seizure type | - | Myoclonic jerks | Febrile seizures |
Cardiac features | Normal | Normal | Left ventricle hypertrophy and mitral insufficiency |
Other clinical features | Motor tics in childhood, micrognathia, nystagmus, postural tremor, absent trunk hair, pes cavus, mild to moderately restrictive pulmonary function, and scoliosis | Nystagmus, postural tremor, mild dysarthria, pes cavus, hyperhidrosis, absent trunk hair, carpal tunnel surgery, and mixed restrictive/obstructive lung function | Moderate scoliosis, growth retardation, pes cavus, and exostosis with confirmed causal EXT1 variant |
Neurological examination | |||
EMG | Severe axonal motor polyneuropathy and mild sensory involvement | Severe axonal motor polyneuropathy and mild sensory involvement | Profound axonal motor polyneuropathy, no sensory involvement |
Brain MRI (age performed) | Normal (13 yr) | Normal (26 yr) | Normal (13 yr) |
Mild white matter hyperintensity lesions (33 yr) | |||
EEG | Normal | Mild nonspecific changes with intermittent bifrontal theta waves | Sporadic epileptiform activity frontocentral localization |
Other genetic features | - | - | NM_000127.2 (EXT1): c.538_539delAG (p.Leu181Profs) |
Individual is deceased