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Integrity of the corpus callosum in patients with periventricular nodular heterotopia related epilepsy by FLNA mutation.

ABSTRACT: Objective: To investigate the quantitative diffusion properties of the corpus callosum (CC) in a large group of patients with periventricular nodular heterotopia (PNH) related epilepsy and to further investigate the effect of Filamin A (FLNA) mutation on these properties.

Methods: Patients with PNH (n = 34), subdivided into FLNA-mutated (n = 11) and FLNA-nonmutated patients (n = 23) and healthy controls (n = 34), underwent 3.0 T structural MRI and diffusion imaging scan (64 direction). Fractional anisotropy (FA) and mean diffusivity (MD) were measured in the three major subdivisions of the CC (genu, body and splenium). Correlations between DTI metric changes and clinical parameters were also evaluated. Furthermore, the effect of FLNA mutation on structural integrity of the corpus callosum was examined.

Results: Patients with PNH and epilepsy had significant reductions in FA for the genu and splenium of the CC, accompanied by increases in MD for the splenium, as compared to healthy controls. There were no correlations between clinical parameters of epilepsy and MD. The FA value in the splenium negatively correlated with epilepsy duration. Interestingly, FLNA-mutated patients showed significantly decreased FA for all three major subdivisions of the CC, and increased MD for the genu and splenium, as compared to HCs and FLNA-nonmutated patients.

Conclusions: These findings support the conclusion that patients with epilepsy secondary to PNH present widespread microstructural changes found in the corpus callosum that extend beyond the macroscopic MRI-visible lesions. This study also indicates that FLNA may affect white matter integrity in this disorder.

SUBMITTER: Liu W

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5647519 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Integrity of the corpus callosum in patients with periventricular nodular heterotopia related epilepsy by FLNA mutation.

Liu Wenyu W An Dongmei D Niu Running R Gong Qiyong Q Zhou Dong D

NeuroImage. Clinical 20171013

<h4>Objective</h4>To investigate the quantitative diffusion properties of the corpus callosum (CC) in a large group of patients with periventricular nodular heterotopia (PNH) related epilepsy and to further investigate the effect of <i>Filamin A</i> (<i>FLNA</i>) mutation on these properties.<h4>Methods</h4>Patients with PNH (n = 34), subdivided into <i>FLNA</i>-mutated (n = 11) and <i>FLNA</i>-nonmutated patients (n = 23) and healthy controls (n = 34), underwent 3.0 T structural MRI and diffusi ...[more]

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Project description:BACKGROUND: X-linked periventricular nodular heterotopia is a disorder of neuronal migration resulting from mutations in the filamin A gene. This is an X-linked dominant condition where most affected patients are female and present with seizures. Extra-cerebral features such as cardiac abnormalities and thrombocytopenia have also been documented. Loss of function mutations in filamin A are predicted to result in prenatal lethality in males. Somatic mosaicism and mutations that lead to partial loss of function of the protein are hypothesized to explain viability of males reported in the literature. We report the first case of germline mosaicism involving a loss of function mutation in filamin A in a family where brain MRI, clinical exam, and mutation analysis is normal in both biological parents. CASE PRESENTATION: The index patient, a 39 year old female with normal development, had her first seizure at 24 years with no evidence of any precipitating factors. Brain MRI shows bilateral periventricular nodular heterotopia. She has thrombocytopenia and an echocardiogram at age 32 years revealed a mildly dilated aortic root and ascending aorta with mild aortic regurgitation. The second patient, the 36 year old younger sister of the index case, is currently healthy with no evidence of seizures or cardiac abnormalities. Her brain MRI is consistent with bilateral periventricular nodular heterotopia. The mother is healthy at 57 years of age with a normal brain MRI. The father is healthy at 59 years of age with a normal brain MRI. DNA sequencing of lymphocyte extracted DNA from the two sisters shows a c.2002C?>?T transition in exon 13 of filamin A resulting in a p.Gln668Ter mutation. This nonsense mutation was not detected in peripheral blood lymphocytes from the unaffected parents. CONCLUSION: This report provides evidence for germline mosaicism in filamin A-associated periventricular nodular heterotopia. This case must now be considered when providing genetic counseling to families where a proband presents as an isolated case and parental investigations are unremarkable.

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Integrity of the corpus callosum in patients with periventricular nodular heterotopia related epilepsy by FLNA mutation.

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Integrity of the corpus callosum in patients with periventricular nodular heterotopia related epilepsy by FLNA mutation.

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