Abstract | BACKGROUND: METHODS: RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Most patients developed moderate to severe intellectual disability; mild intellectual disability was rare in adult patients. Speech language development was especially delayed but almost a third of the patients were able to speak in sentences. Besides behavioural problems and seizures, mild to moderate motor dysfunction, including extrapyramidal movement abnormalities, and gastrointestinal problems were frequent clinical features. Urinary creatine to creatinine ratio proved to be a reliable screening method besides MR spectroscopy, molecular genetic testing and creatine uptake studies, allowing definition of diagnostic guidelines. A third of patients had a de novo mutation in the SLC6A8 gene. Mothers with an affected son with a de novo mutation should be counselled about a recurrence risk in further pregnancies due to the possibility of low level somatic or germline mosaicism. Missense mutations with residual activity might be associated with a milder phenotype and large deletions extending beyond the 3' end of the SLC6A8 gene with a more severe phenotype. Evaluation of the biochemical phenotype revealed unexpected high creatine levels in cerebrospinal fluid suggesting that the brain is able to synthesise creatine and that the cerebral creatine deficiency is caused by a defect in the reuptake of creatine within the neurones.
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Authors | J M van de Kamp, O T Betsalel, S Mercimek-Mahmutoglu, L Abulhoul, S Grünewald, I Anselm, H Azzouz, D Bratkovic, A de Brouwer, B Hamel, T Kleefstra, H Yntema, J Campistol, M A Vilaseca, D Cheillan, M D'Hooghe, L Diogo, P Garcia, C Valongo, M Fonseca, S Frints, B Wilcken, S von der Haar, H E Meijers-Heijboer, F Hofstede, D Johnson, S G Kant, L Lion-Francois, G Pitelet, N Longo, J A Maat-Kievit, J P Monteiro, A Munnich, A C Muntau, M C Nassogne, H Osaka, K Ounap, J M Pinard, S Quijano-Roy, I Poggenburg, N Poplawski, O Abdul-Rahman, A Ribes, A Arias, J Yaplito-Lee, A Schulze, C E Schwartz, S Schwenger, G Soares, Y Sznajer, V Valayannopoulos, H Van Esch, S Waltz, M M C Wamelink, P J W Pouwels, A Errami, M S van der Knaap, C Jakobs, G M Mancini, G S Salomons |
Journal | Journal of medical genetics
(J Med Genet)
Vol. 50
Issue 7
Pg. 463-72
(Jul 2013)
ISSN: 1468-6244 [Electronic] England |
PMID | 23644449
(Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
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Chemical References |
- Nerve Tissue Proteins
- Plasma Membrane Neurotransmitter Transport Proteins
- SLC6A8 protein, human
- Creatine
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Topics |
- Adult
- Brain Diseases, Metabolic, Inborn
(genetics)
- Child
- Creatine
(deficiency, genetics, metabolism)
- Genes, X-Linked
- Genetic Testing
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Mental Retardation, X-Linked
(genetics)
- Nerve Tissue Proteins
(genetics)
- Phenotype
- Plasma Membrane Neurotransmitter Transport Proteins
(deficiency, genetics)
- Retrospective Studies
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