Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Intronic ATTTC repeat expansions in STARD7 in familial adult myoclonic epilepsy linked to chromosome 2

  • Mark A. Corbett,
  • Thessa Kroes,
  • Liana Veneziano,
  • Mark F. Bennett,
  • Rahel Florian,
  • Amy L. Schneider,
  • Antonietta Coppola,
  • Laura Licchetta,
  • Silvana Franceschetti,
  • Antonio Suppa,
  • Aaron Wenger,
  • Davide Mei,
  • Manuela Pendziwiat,
  • Sabine Kaya,
  • Massimo Delledonne,
  • Rachel Straussberg,
  • Luciano Xumerle,
  • Brigid Regan,
  • Douglas Crompton,
  • Anne-Fleur van Rootselaar,
  • Anthony Correll,
  • Rachael Catford,
  • Francesca Bisulli,
  • Shreyasee Chakraborty,
  • Sara Baldassari,
  • Paolo Tinuper,
  • Kirston Barton,
  • Shaun Carswell,
  • Martin Smith,
  • Alfredo Berardelli,
  • Renee Carroll,
  • Alison Gardner,
  • Kathryn L. Friend,
  • Ilan Blatt,
  • Michele Iacomino,
  • Carlo Di Bonaventura,
  • Salvatore Striano,
  • Julien Buratti,
  • Boris Keren,
  • Caroline Nava,
  • Sylvie Forlani,
  • Gabrielle Rudolf,
  • Edouard Hirsch,
  • Eric Leguern,
  • Pierre Labauge,
  • Simona Balestrini,
  • Josemir W. Sander,
  • Zaid Afawi,
  • Ingo Helbig,
  • Hiroyuki Ishiura,
  • Shoji Tsuji,
  • Sanjay M. Sisodiya,
  • Giorgio Casari,
  • Lynette G. Sadleir,
  • Riaan van Coller,
  • Marina A. J. Tijssen,
  • Karl Martin Klein,
  • Arn M. J. M. van den Maagdenberg,
  • Federico Zara,
  • Renzo Guerrini,
  • Samuel F. Berkovic,
  • Tommaso Pippucci,
  • Laura Canafoglia,
  • Melanie Bahlo,
  • Pasquale Striano,
  • Ingrid E. Scheffer,
  • Francesco Brancati,
  • Christel Depienne,
  • Jozef Gecz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12671-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Familial cortical myoclonic tremor (FAME) has so far been mapped to regions on chromosome 2, 3, 5 and 8 and pentameric repeat expansions in SAMD12 were identified as cause of FAME1. Here, Corbett et al. identify ATTTT/ATTTC repeat expansions in intron 1 of STARD7 in individuals with FAME2.”