A case of new PCDH12 gene variants presented as dyskinetic cerebral palsy with epilepsy

J Hum Genet. 2018 Jun;63(6):749-753. doi: 10.1038/s10038-018-0432-0. Epub 2018 Mar 19.

Abstract

Here we report a Japanese patient with new compound heterozygous truncating variants in the PCDH12 gene. As compared to the previously reported families who had congenital microcephaly, intrauterine growth retardation, intracranial calcification, and neonatal seizure associated with dysplasia of the midbrain-hypothalamus-optic tract, the present patient showed no midbrain-hypothalamus dysplasia or congenital/postnatal microcephaly, but dyskinetic cerebral palsy and severe intellectual disability as well as multifocal epilepsy. To understand phenotypic spectrum associated with PCDH12 variants, more reports are needed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Anticonvulsants / therapeutic use
  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain / physiopathology
  • Cadherins / genetics*
  • Cerebral Palsy / diagnostic imaging
  • Cerebral Palsy / genetics*
  • Dyskinesias / diagnostic imaging
  • Dyskinesias / genetics*
  • Electroencephalography
  • Epilepsy / diagnostic imaging
  • Epilepsy / drug therapy
  • Epilepsy / genetics*
  • Heterozygote
  • Humans
  • Intellectual Disability / diagnostic imaging
  • Intellectual Disability / genetics
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Phenotype
  • Protocadherins

Substances

  • Anticonvulsants
  • Cadherins
  • PCDH12 protein, human
  • Protocadherins