BRAT1–related disorders: phenotypic spectrum and phenotype-genotype correlations from 97 patients

Camille Engel*, Stéphanie Valence, Geoffroy Delplancq, Reza Maroofian, Andrea Accogli, Emanuele Agolini, Fowzan S. Alkuraya, Valentina Baglioni, Irene Bagnasco, Mathilde Becmeur-Lefebvre, Enrico Bertini, Ingo Borggraefe, Elise Brischoux-Boucher, Ange Line Bruel, Alfredo Brusco, Dalal K. Bubshait, Christelle Cabrol, Maria Roberta Cilio, Marie Coralie Cornet, Christine CoubesOlivier Danhaive, Valérie Delague, Anne Sophie Denommé-Pichon, Marilena Carmela Di Giacomo, Martine Doco-Fenzy, Hartmut Engels, Kirsten Cremer, Marion Gérard, Joseph G. Gleeson, Delphine Heron, Joanna Goffeney, Anne Guimier, Frederike L. Harms, Henry Houlden, Michele Iacomino, Rauan Kaiyrzhanov, Benjamin Kamien, Ehsan Ghayoor Karimiani, Dror Kraus, Paul Kuentz, Kerstin Kutsche, Damien Lederer, Lauren Massingham, Cyril Mignot, Déborah Morris-Rosendahl, Lakshmi Nagarajan, Sylvie Odent, Clothilde Ormières, Jennifer Neil Partlow, Laurent Pasquier, Lynette Penney, Christophe Philippe, Gianluca Piccolo, Cathryn Poulton, Audrey Putoux, Marlène Rio, Christelle Rougeot, Vincenzo Salpietro, Ingrid Scheffer, Amy Schneider, Siddharth Srivastava, Rachel Straussberg, Pasquale Striano, Enza Maria Valente, Perrine Venot, Laurent Villard, Antonio Vitobello, Johanna Wagner, Matias Wagner, Maha S. Zaki, Federizo Zara, Gaetan Lesca, Vahid Reza Yassaee, Mohammad Miryounesi, Farzad Hashemi-Gorji, Mehran Beiraghi, Farah Ashrafzadeh, Hamid Galehdari, Christopher Walsh, Antonio Novelli, Moritz Tacke, Dinara Sadykova, Yerdan Maidyrov, Kairgali Koneev, Chingiz Shashkin, Valeria Capra, Mina Zamani, Lionel Van Maldergem, Lydie Burglen, Juliette Piard

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Abstract

BRAT1 biallelic variants are associated with rigidity and multifocal seizure syndrome, lethal neonatal (RMFSL), and neurodevelopmental disorder associating cerebellar atrophy with or without seizures syndrome (NEDCAS). To date, forty individuals have been reported in the literature. We collected clinical and molecular data from 57 additional cases allowing us to study a large cohort of 97 individuals and draw phenotype-genotype correlations. Fifty-nine individuals presented with BRAT1-related RMFSL phenotype. Most of them had no psychomotor acquisition (100%), epilepsy (100%), microcephaly (91%), limb rigidity (93%), and died prematurely (93%). Thirty-eight individuals presented a non-lethal phenotype of BRAT1-related NEDCAS phenotype. Seventy-six percent of the patients in this group were able to walk and 68% were able to say at least a few words. Most of them had cerebellar ataxia (82%), axial hypotonia (79%) and cerebellar atrophy (100%). Genotype-phenotype correlations in our cohort revealed that biallelic nonsense, frameshift or inframe deletion/insertion variants result in the severe BRAT1-related RMFSL phenotype (46/46; 100%). In contrast, genotypes with at least one missense were more likely associated with NEDCAS (28/34; 82%). The phenotype of patients carrying splice variants was variable: 41% presented with RMFSL (7/17) and 59% with NEDCAS (10/17).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1023-1031
Number of pages9
JournalEuropean Journal of Human Genetics
Volume31
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2023

Funding

FundersFunder number
National Institutes of Health
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and StrokeK23NS119666
King Salman Center for Disability ResearchRG-2022-011

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