Clinical heterogeneity and phenotype/genotype findings in 5 families with GYG1 deficiency.
Neurol Genet
; 3(6): e208, 2017 Dec.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To describe the variability of muscle symptoms in patients carrying mutations in the GYG1 gene, encoding glycogenin-1, an enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of glycogen, and to discuss genotype-phenotype relations.METHODS:
We describe 9 patients from 5 families in whom muscle biopsies showed vacuoles with an abnormal accumulation of glycogen in muscle fibers, partially α-amylase resistant suggesting polyglucosan bodies. The patients had either progressive early-onset limb-girdle weakness or late-onset distal or scapuloperoneal muscle affection as shown by muscle imaging. No clear definite cardiac disease was found. Histologic and protein analysis investigations were performed on muscle.RESULTS:
Genetic analyses by direct or exome sequencing of the GYG1 gene revealed 6 different GYG1 mutations. Four of the mutations were novel. They were compound heterozygous in 3 families and homozygous in 2. Protein analysis revealed either the absence of glycogenin-1 or reduced glycogenin-1 expression with impaired glucosylation.CONCLUSIONS:
Our report extends the genetic and clinical spectrum of glycogenin-1-related myopathies to include scapuloperoneal and distal affection with glycogen accumulation.
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