Mild Cognitive Impairment in novel SPG11 Mutation-Related Sporadic Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia with Thin Corpus Callosum
Background: SPG11 mutation-related autosomal recessive hereditary spastic paraplegia with thin corpus callosum (HSP-TCC) is the most common cause in complicated forms of HSP, usually presenting comprehensive mental retardation on early-onset stage preceding spastic paraplegias in childhood. However, there are still lots of sporadic late-onset HSP-TCC cases with negative family history, and potential mild cognitive deficits in multiple domains may be easily neglected and inaccurately described.
Methods: In this study, we performed next generation sequencing in four sporadic late-onset patients with spastic paraplegia and thin corpus callosum (TCC), and combined Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) to evaluate cognition of the patients.
Results: By evolutionary conservation and structural modeling analysis, we have revealed 4 novel pathogenic SPG11 mutations, and firstly confirmed mild cognitive impairment (MCI) with normal MMSE scores (≥27) and decreased MoCA scores (<26) in these SPG11 mutation-related HSP-TCC patients, predominantly presenting impairment of visuoexecutive function, delayed recall, abstraction and language correlated with prefrontal deficits.
Conclusions: The results expand the mutational spectrum of SPG11-associated HSP-TCC from sporadic cases, and confirm MCI characterized with dysfunction of prefrontal lobe in SPG11-related HSP-TCC, which should be paid more attention by neurologists.
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Mild Cognitive Impairment in novel SPG11 Mutation-Related Sporadic Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia with Thin Corpus Callosum
Posted 13 Dec, 2020
On 13 Dec, 2020
On 10 Nov, 2020
On 10 Nov, 2020
On 10 Nov, 2020
Posted 17 Sep, 2020
On 11 Jan, 2021
On 29 Oct, 2020
Received 11 Oct, 2020
Received 05 Oct, 2020
On 25 Sep, 2020
Invitations sent on 24 Sep, 2020
On 24 Sep, 2020
On 30 Aug, 2020
On 29 Aug, 2020
On 29 Aug, 2020
Posted 17 Aug, 2020
Background: SPG11 mutation-related autosomal recessive hereditary spastic paraplegia with thin corpus callosum (HSP-TCC) is the most common cause in complicated forms of HSP, usually presenting comprehensive mental retardation on early-onset stage preceding spastic paraplegias in childhood. However, there are still lots of sporadic late-onset HSP-TCC cases with negative family history, and potential mild cognitive deficits in multiple domains may be easily neglected and inaccurately described.
Methods: In this study, we performed next generation sequencing in four sporadic late-onset patients with spastic paraplegia and thin corpus callosum (TCC), and combined Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) to evaluate cognition of the patients.
Results: By evolutionary conservation and structural modeling analysis, we have revealed 4 novel pathogenic SPG11 mutations, and firstly confirmed mild cognitive impairment (MCI) with normal MMSE scores (≥27) and decreased MoCA scores (<26) in these SPG11 mutation-related HSP-TCC patients, predominantly presenting impairment of visuoexecutive function, delayed recall, abstraction and language correlated with prefrontal deficits.
Conclusions: The results expand the mutational spectrum of SPG11-associated HSP-TCC from sporadic cases, and confirm MCI characterized with dysfunction of prefrontal lobe in SPG11-related HSP-TCC, which should be paid more attention by neurologists.
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