From the University of Tübingen (S. Wolking, J.M., Y.G.W., H.L., J.S.), Department of Neurology and Epileptology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Tübingen, Germany; Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (P.M.), University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette; Pediatric Neurology and Neurogenetics Unit and Laboratories (D.M., R.G., C.M.), Children's Hospital Anna Meyer, University of Florence, Italy; Danish Epilepsy Centre (R.S.M.), Dianalund; Institute for Regional Health Services (R.S.M.), University of Southern Denmark, Odense; Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy (S.B.), UCL Institute of Neurology and Epilepsy Society, UK, London; Division of Neurology (K.L.H., I.H.), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA; Department of Pediatric Neurology (C.D.A.), Centre de Compétences Maladies Rares, CHU Besançon; Service de Génétique (N.C.), Hospices Civils des Lyon, Bron; GENDEV Team (N.C.), Neurosciences Research Center of Lyon, Bron, France; Neuropediatric Clinic and Clinic for Neurorehabilitation (K.S.), Epilepsy Center for Children and Adolescents, Schoen Klinik Vogtareuth, Germany; Beaumont Hospital (P.W.-W.), Dublin, Ireland; Department of Pediatrics, Division of Medical Genetics, Institute of Human Genetics (B.A.M.), Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics (A.N.), and Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics, and Institute of Human Genetics (M.R.C.), University of California, San Francisco; Department of Neurology (W.V.P.), University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium; Department of Pediatrics (L.L.S.), Hvidovre Hospital, Denmark; King's College Hospital (S.O., E.H., S.G., D.K.P.), London; Evelina London Children's Hospital (S.O., E.H., S.G.), London, UK; Section of Genetics (K.B., M.S.S.), Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado and Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora; Clinique Bernoise Montana (T.D.), Crans-Montana, Switzerland; Department of Neuropediatrics (H.M.), University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany; National Institute for Health Research Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics (A.T.P., S.J.L.K., J.C.T.) and Department of Oncology (D.V.V.), University of Oxford, UK; Epilepsy Center (M.P.C.), Health Sciences Department, San Paolo Hospital, University of Milan; Child Neuropsychiatry (F.D.), Department of Surgical Sciences, Dentistry, Gynecology and Pediatrics, University of Verona, Italy; Departments of Neurology and Clinical Genomics (R.H.G.) and Health Sciences Research and Clinical Genomics (E.W.K., C.K.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Ambry Genetics (Z.P.), Aliso Viejo, CA; Department of Clinical Neuroscience (S.T.), King's College London; New Medicines (M.A., D.M.), UCB Pharma, Slough, UK; Neuropediatric Clinic and Clinic for Neurorehabilitation (G.J.K.), Epilepsy Center for Children and Adolescents, Schoen Klinik Vogtareuth, Germany; Research Institute for Rehabilitation, Transition and Palliation (G.J.K.), PMU Salzburg, Austria; Department of Neurology (D.H.L.), University of California, San Francisco; Neurogenetics Group (S. Weckhuysen), Center for Molecular Neurology, VIB, Antwerp; Laboratory of Neurogenetics (S. Weckhuysen), Institute Born-Bunge, University of Antwerp; Department of Neurology (S. Weckhuysen), Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium; Department of Basic & Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (D.K.P.), MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders (D.K.P.), King's College London, UK; Evelina London Children's Hospital (D.K.P.), London, UK; Department of Neuropediatrics (I.H.), University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany; Institute of Neuroscience (R.H.T.), Henry Wellcome Building, Newcastle University; Neurology Research Group (M.I.R.), Institute of Life Science, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, UK; Service de Génétique (G.L.), Hospices Civils des Lyon, Bron; GENDEV Team (G.L.), Neurosciences Research Center of Lyon, Bron, France; NIHR University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre (S.M.S.), UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK; Cologne Center for Genomics (D.L.), University of Cologne, Germany; Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research (D.L.) and Program in Medical and Population Genetics (D.L.), Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge; Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit (D.L.), Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston.
Neurology. 2019 Mar 12;92(11):e1238-e1249. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000007089. Epub 2019 Feb 8.
The aim of this study was to expand the spectrum of epilepsy syndromes related to , encoding the presynaptic protein syntaxin-1B, and establish genotype-phenotype correlations by identifying further disease-related variants.
We used next-generation sequencing in the framework of research projects and diagnostic testing. Clinical data and EEGs were reviewed, including already published cases. To estimate the pathogenicity of the variants, we used established and newly developed in silico prediction tools.
We describe 17 new variants in , which are distributed across the whole gene. We discerned 4 different phenotypic groups across the newly identified and previously published patients (49 patients in 23 families): (1) 6 sporadic patients or families (31 affected individuals) with febrile and afebrile seizures with a benign course, generally good drug response, normal development, and without permanent neurologic deficits; (2) 2 patients with genetic generalized epilepsy without febrile seizures and cognitive deficits; (3) 13 patients or families with intractable seizures, developmental regression after seizure onset and additional neuropsychiatric symptoms; (4) 2 patients with focal epilepsy. More often, we found loss-of-function mutations in benign syndromes, whereas missense variants in the SNARE motif of syntaxin-1B were associated with more severe phenotypes.
These data expand the genetic and phenotypic spectrum of -related epilepsies to a diverse range of epilepsies that span the International League Against Epilepsy classification. Variants in are protean and contribute to many different epilepsy phenotypes, similar to , the most important gene associated with fever-associated epilepsies.
本研究旨在扩展与 编码突触相关蛋白 syntaxin-1B 相关的癫痫综合征谱，并通过鉴定更多与疾病相关的变异来建立基因型-表型相关性。
我们在研究项目和诊断测试的框架内使用下一代测序。我们回顾了临床数据和 EEG，包括已发表的病例。为了评估变异的致病性，我们使用了已建立的和新开发的计算机预测工具。
我们在 中描述了 17 个新的变异，这些变异分布在整个基因中。我们通过新鉴定的和以前发表的患者（23 个家庭中的 49 名患者）辨别出 4 个不同的表型组：（1）6 名散发性患者或家庭（31 名受影响个体）有热性和无热性惊厥，病程良性，药物反应一般较好，发育正常，无永久性神经功能缺损；（2）2 名患有遗传性全身性癫痫且无热性惊厥和认知缺陷的患者；（3）13 名患者或家庭有难治性癫痫发作，发作后出现发育退化和其他神经精神症状；（4）2 名患有局灶性癫痫。我们更常发现良性综合征中的功能丧失突变，而 syntaxin-1B 的 SNARE 基序中的错义变异与更严重的表型相关。
这些数据将 相关癫痫的遗传和表型谱扩展到一系列不同的癫痫，涵盖了国际抗癫痫联盟的分类。 中的变异是多样的，与许多不同的癫痫表型有关，类似于 ，这是与发热相关癫痫最重要的基因。
