The Ken and Ruth Davee Department of Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
Department of Pharmacy, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
Neuromolecular Med. 2020 Mar;22(1):68-72. doi: 10.1007/s12017-019-08564-4. Epub 2019 Aug 29.
Mutations in TRPV4 are linked to a group of clinically distinct, but also overlapping axonal neuropathies, including Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2C (CMT2C), scapuloperoneal spinal muscular atrophy, and congenital distal spinal muscular atrophy. The incidence of TRPV4-linked cases ranges from 0 to 7% in overall axonal neuropathy cohorts from European countries and Australia. However, the data from other areas remain largely unknown. In this study, we screened for TRPV4 mutations in a well-characterized USA cohort of 62 unrelated CMT2 patients without mutations in MFN2, GARS, NEFL, and GDAP1. All 15 coding exons of TRPV4 were analyzed by Sanger-sequencing. Clinical features of TRPV4-linked patients were compared with those lacking TRPV4 mutations. We identified two TRPV4 mutations in two patients. A TRPV4-R316C was identified in a patient with family history, while a TRPV4-R269C in an apparently sporadic case. Marked clinical variations were observed in the patients with TRPV4 mutations. Our data suggest that TRPV4-linked CMT2C accounts for a sizable fraction in this USA cohort of CMT2; it has a wide phenotypic spectrum, and vocal cord paralysis, scapular weakness and wasting, skeletal dysplasia, and hearing loss are suggestive signs for TRPV4-linked CMT2C.
TRPV4 突变与一组临床上明显不同但又重叠的轴索性神经病有关,包括腓骨肌萎缩症 2C 型(CMT2C)、肩胛腓骨肌萎缩症和先天性远端脊髓性肌萎缩症。在来自欧洲国家和澳大利亚的总体轴索性神经病队列中,TRPV4 相关病例的发生率从 0 到 7%不等。然而,其他地区的数据仍知之甚少。在这项研究中,我们在一个经过充分特征描述的美国 CMT2 患者队列(62 名无 MFN2、GARS、NEFL 和 GDAP1 突变的非相关患者)中筛查 TRPV4 突变。通过 Sanger 测序分析 TRPV4 的所有 15 个编码外显子。比较 TRPV4 相关患者与缺乏 TRPV4 突变患者的临床特征。我们在两名患者中发现了两种 TRPV4 突变。一名有家族史的患者中发现 TRPV4-R316C,另一名散发性病例中发现 TRPV4-R269C。TRPV4 突变患者的临床表型差异显著。我们的数据表明,TRPV4 相关 CMT2C 在该美国 CMT2 队列中占相当大的比例;它具有广泛的表型谱,声带麻痹、肩胛带无力和萎缩、骨骼发育不良和听力损失是提示 TRPV4 相关 CMT2C 的特征性体征。