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- Title
Four mutations of the spastin gene in Japanese families with spastic paraplegia.
- Authors
Basri, Rehana; Yabe, Ichiro; Soma, Hiroyuki; Takei, Asako; Nishimura, Hiroyuki; Machino, Yuka; Kokubo, Yasumasa; Kosugi, Masafumi; Okada, Ryuichirou; Yukitake, Motohiro; Tachibana, Hisao; Kuroda, Yasuo; Kuzuhara, Shigeki; Sasaki, Hidenao
- Abstract
Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a group of genetically heterogeneous neurodegenerative disorders characterized by slowly progressive spasticity and weakness of the lower limbs. HSP is caused by failure of development or selective degeneration of the corticospinal tracts, which contain the longest axons in humans. The most common form of HSP is caused by mutations of the spastin gene ( SPAST), located on chromosome 2p21-p22, which encodes spastin, one of the ATPases associated with diverse cellular activities (AAA). In this study, we detected four causative mutations of SPAST among 14 unrelated patients with spastic paraplegia. Two missense mutations (1447A→G, 1207C→G) and two deletion mutations (1465delT, 1475-1476delAA) were located in the AAA cassette region. Three of these four mutations were novel. Previous reports and our results suggest that the frequency of SPAST mutations is higher among Japanese patients with autosomal dominant HSP, although SPAST mutations are also observed in patients with sporadic spastic paraplegia.
- Subjects
JAPAN; SPASTIC paralysis; GENETIC disorders; GENETIC mutation; LEG diseases; PYRAMIDAL tract
- Publication
Journal of Human Genetics, 2006, Vol 51, Issue 8, p711
- ISSN
1434-5161
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10038-006-0412-7