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- Title
Threshold of somatic mosaicism leading to brain dysfunction with focal epilepsy.
- Authors
Kim, Jintae; Park, Sang Min; Koh, Hyun Yong; Ko, Ara; Kang, Hoon-Chul; Chang, Won Seok; Kim, Dong Seok; Lee, Jeong Ho
- Abstract
Somatic mosaicism in a fraction of brain cells causes neurodevelopmental disorders, including childhood intractable epilepsy. However, the threshold for somatic mosaicism leading to brain dysfunction is unknown. In this study, we induced various mosaic burdens in focal cortical dysplasia type II (FCD II) mice, featuring mTOR somatic mosaicism and spontaneous behavioural seizures. The mosaic burdens ranged from approximately 1000 to 40 000 neurons expressing the mTOR mutant in the somatosensory or medial prefrontal cortex. Surprisingly, approximately 8000–9000 neurons expressing the MTOR mutant, extrapolated to constitute 0.08%–0.09% of total cells or roughly 0.04% of variant allele frequency in the mouse hemicortex, were sufficient to trigger epileptic seizures. The mutational burden was correlated with seizure frequency and onset, with a higher tendency for electrographic inter-ictal spikes and beta- and gamma-frequency oscillations in FCD II mice exceeding the threshold. Moreover, mutation-negative FCD II patients in deep sequencing of their bulky brain tissues revealed somatic mosaicism of the mTOR pathway genes as low as 0.07% in resected brain tissues through ultra-deep targeted sequencing (up to 20 million reads). Thus, our study suggests that extremely low levels of somatic mosaicism can contribute to brain dysfunction.
- Subjects
FOCAL cortical dysplasia; CHILDHOOD epilepsy; SOMATIC mutation; SEIZURES (Medicine); MOSAICISM
- Publication
Brain: A Journal of Neurology, 2024, Vol 147, Issue 9, p2983
- ISSN
0006-8950
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/brain/awae190