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Neurology
2016 Jun 07;8623:2171-8. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000002740.
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Delineating the GRIN1 phenotypic spectrum: A distinct genetic NMDA receptor encephalopathy.
Lemke JR
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Geider K
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Helbig KL
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Heyne HO
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Schütz H
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Hentschel J
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Courage C
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Depienne C
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Nava C
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Heron D
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Møller RS
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Hjalgrim H
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Lal D
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Neubauer BA
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Nürnberg P
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Thiele H
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Kurlemann G
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Arnold GL
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Bhambhani V
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Bartholdi D
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Pedurupillay CR
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Misceo D
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Frengen E
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Strømme P
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Dlugos DJ
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Doherty ES
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Bijlsma EK
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Ruivenkamp CA
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Hoffer MJ
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Goldstein A
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Rajan DS
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Narayanan V
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Ramsey K
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Belnap N
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Schrauwen I
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Richholt R
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Koeleman BP
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Sá J
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Mendonça C
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de Kovel CG
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Weckhuysen S
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Hardies K
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De Jonghe P
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De Meirleir L
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Milh M
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Badens C
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Lebrun M
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Busa T
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Francannet C
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Piton A
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Riesch E
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Biskup S
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Vogt H
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Dorn T
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Helbig I
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Michaud JL
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Laube B
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Syrbe S
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OBJECTIVE: To determine the phenotypic spectrum caused by mutations in GRIN1 encoding the NMDA receptor subunit GluN1 and to investigate their underlying functional pathophysiology.
METHODS: We collected molecular and clinical data from several diagnostic and research cohorts. Functional consequences of GRIN1 mutations were investigated in Xenopus laevis oocytes.
RESULTS: We identified heterozygous de novo GRIN1 mutations in 14 individuals and reviewed the phenotypes of all 9 previously reported patients. These 23 individuals presented with a distinct phenotype of profound developmental delay, severe intellectual disability with absent speech, muscular hypotonia, hyperkinetic movement disorder, oculogyric crises, cortical blindness, generalized cerebral atrophy, and epilepsy. Mutations cluster within transmembrane segments and result in loss of channel function of varying severity with a dominant-negative effect. In addition, we describe 2 homozygous GRIN1 mutations (1 missense, 1 truncation), each segregating with severe neurodevelopmental phenotypes in consanguineous families.
CONCLUSIONS: De novo GRIN1 mutations are associated with severe intellectual disability with cortical visual impairment as well as oculomotor and movement disorders being discriminating phenotypic features. Loss of NMDA receptor function appears to be the underlying disease mechanism. The identification of both heterozygous and homozygous mutations blurs the borders of dominant and recessive inheritance of GRIN1-associated disorders.
Figure 1. Domains of GRIN1 and distribution of variantsSignal peptide (SP), the extracellular N-terminal domain, and ligand binding sites (S1, S2), the transmembrane domains (M1-4), as well as the intracellular C-terminal domain (CTD) with the proximal Ca2+ calmodulin binding domain (CBD). De novo mutations (red) cluster within or in very close proximity to M1-4. In addition, this region is particularly spared from nonsynonymous genetic variation according to the ExAC browser (rare/single variants, gray; repeated/frequent variants, black). The 2 homozygous GRIN1 variants are marked in blue.
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