@phdthesis{oai:ir.kagoshima-u.ac.jp:00015832,
 author = {寺﨑, 茜 and Terasaki, Akane},
 month = {2022-08-02, 2021-09-27, 2021-04-14, 2021-04-14},
 note = {博士論文全文, 博士論文要旨, 最終試験結果の要旨, 論文審査の要旨, Benign adult familial myoclonic epilepsy (BAFME) is an autosomal dominant disease characterized by adult-onset tremulous hand movement, myoclonus, and infrequent epileptic seizures. Recently, intronic expansion of unstable TTTCA/TTTTA pentanucleotide repeats in SAMD12, TNRC6A, or RAPGEF2 was identified as pathological mutations in Japanese BAFME pedigrees. To confirm these mutations, we performed a genetic analysis on 12 Japanese BAFME pedigrees. A total of 143 participants, including 43 familial patients, 5 suspected patients, 3 sporadic nonfamilial patients, 22 unaffected familial members, and 70 unrelated controls, were screened for expanded abnormal pentanucleotide repeats in SAMD12, TNRC6A, RAPGEF2, YEAT2, MARCH6, and STARD7. DNA samples were analyzed using Southern blotting, long-range polymerase chain reaction (PCR), repeat-primed PCR, and long-range PCR followed by Southern blotting. Of the 51 individuals with clinically diagnosed or suspected BAFME, 49 carried a SAMD12 allele with an expanded TTTCA/TTTTA pentanucleotide repeat. Genetic and clinical anticipation was observed. As in previous reports, the one patient with homozygous mutant alleles showed more severe symptoms than the heterozygous carriers. In addition, screening for expanded pentanucleotide repeats in TNRC6A revealed that the frequency of expanded TTTTA repeat alleles in the BAFME group was significantly higher than in the control group. All patients who were clinically diagnosed with BAFME, including those in the original family reported by Yasuda, carried abnormally expanded TTTCA/TTTTA repeat alleles of SAMD12. Patients with BAFME also frequently carried a TTTTA repeat expansion in TNRC6A, suggesting that there may be unknown factors in the ancestry of patients with BAFME that make pentanucleotide repeats unstable.

Akane Terasaki, Masayuki Nakamura, Yuka Urata, Hanae Hiwatashi, Izumi Yokoyama, Takeshi Yasuda, Teiichi Onuma, Kazumaru Wada, Sunao Kaneko, Rumiko Kan, Shin-ichi Niwa, Ohiko Hashimoto, Osamu Komure, Yu-ichi Goto, Yuko Yamagishi, Misa Nakano, Yoshihiko Furusawa & Akira Sano
DNA analysis of benign adult familial myoclonic epilepsy reveals associations between the pathogenic TTTCA repeat insertion in SAMD12 and the nonpathogenic TTTTA repeat expansion in TNRC6A
Journal of Human Genetics 66, 419–429 (2021)

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 school = {鹿児島大学},
 title = {DNA analysis of benign adult falmilial myoclonic epilepsy reveals assocoiations between the pathogenic TTTCA repeat insertion in SAMD12 and the non-pathogenic TTTTA repeat expansion in TNRC6A},
 year = {},
 yomi = {テラサキ, アカネ}
}