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Novel compound heterozygous mutations in the PANK2 gene in a Chinese patient with atypical pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration.


ABSTRACT: We investigated the presence of mutations in the pantothenate kinase (PANK2) gene in a 27-year-old male Chinese patient with atypical pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration (PKAN), formerly Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome. Automated DNA sequence analyses revealed compound heterozygous mutations in the exon 3 and 5. This patient had a 10-year history of PKAN characterized by a slight tremor of the right hand when writing at onset and a slow progressive rigidity of the neck and the right arm and resting tremor in upper extremities. Dysarthria, dysphagia, and dystonic-athetoid movements of the face and right fingers were marked. Magnetic resonance showed the typical "eye-of-the-tiger" sign.

SUBMITTER: Zhang YH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2105744 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Novel compound heterozygous mutations in the PANK2 gene in a Chinese patient with atypical pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration.

Zhang Yu-hu YH   Tang Bei-sha BS   Zhao Ai-ling AL   Xia Kun K   Long Zhi-gao ZG   Guo Ji-feng JF   Westaway Shawn K SK   Hayflick Susan J SJ  

Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 20050701 7


We investigated the presence of mutations in the pantothenate kinase (PANK2) gene in a 27-year-old male Chinese patient with atypical pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration (PKAN), formerly Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome. Automated DNA sequence analyses revealed compound heterozygous mutations in the exon 3 and 5. This patient had a 10-year history of PKAN characterized by a slight tremor of the right hand when writing at onset and a slow progressive rigidity of the neck and the right arm  ...[more]

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