Published Ahead of Print on May 26, 2021 as 10.1212/WNL.0000000000012264
Neurology Publish Ahead of Print DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000012264
Teaching Video NeuroImages: New STUB1 Variant Causes Chorea, Tremor, Dystonia, Myoclonus, Ataxia, Depression, Cognitive Impairment, Epilepsy, and Superficial Siderosis
Carsten Saft1, Sabine Skodda2, Huu Phuc Nguyen3, Joohyun Park4, Tobias B Haack4
Affiliations:
1 Department of Neurology, Huntington-Centre NRW, St. Josef Hospital, Bochum, Germany
2Department of Neurology, Knappschaftskrankenhaus, Bochum, Germany
3Department of Human Genetics, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany
4Institute of Medical Genetics and Applied Genomics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Corresponding Author: Dr. Saft [email protected].
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Case Summary
We present a family with a wide range of movement disorders carrying a new heterozygous splice variant in STUB1 (NM_005861:c.787-2_787del), probably causing skipping of exon 7, as relevant differential diagnosis to Huntington’s disease. Grandmother and mother (improved with olanzapine) presented with chorea, dystonia (also platysma), head-tremor, orofacial dyskinesias (prior to neuroleptics), saccadic eye movements, ataxia with cerebellar atrophy (see figure 1), depression, cachexia and cognitive impairment. The grandmother suffered from epilepsy and mother from superficial siderosis (see figure 1). The son presented with depression, left sided myoclonus and ataxia, and tremor resembling essential tremor which began in childhood without alcohol sensitivity. STUB1 mutation in this family caused chorea, tremor, dystonia, myoclonus, ataxia, depression, cognitive impairment, epilepsy and superficial siderosis (see video 1,http://links.lww.com/WNL/B433).
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Grandmother (age at onset (AO): 63, died age 65 years (pulmonary embolism), epilepsy since age 55 years)); mother (AO: 49, died age 52 years (reason unclear)) and son (age 31 years,
Copyright © 2021 American Academy of Neurology. Unauthorized reproduction of this article is prohibited AO: childhood) with various movement disorders. Exclusion of Huntington’s disease, SCA 1-3, 6, 7, 12, 17, DRPLA, FXTAS, C9orf72, NBIA mutation.
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T2-weighted MRI (a-c) of the grandmother showing cerebellar atrophy (a,b) and basal ganglia hypointensity (with no correlate in cerebral computed tomography; c; see arrow). T2- weighted and SWI weighted MRI of the mother (d-f) showing cerebellar atrophy (d) and basal ganglia SWI artifacts (e; see arrow) and cortical SWI artifacts highly suggestive of superficial siderosis (f; see arrows).
References
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Copyright © 2021 American Academy of Neurology. Unauthorized reproduction of this article is prohibited Teaching Video NeuroImages: New STUB1 Variant Causes Chorea, Tremor, Dystonia, Myoclonus, Ataxia, Depression, Cognitive Impairment, Epilepsy, and Superficial Siderosis Carsten Saft, Sabine Skodda, Huu Phuc Nguyen, et al. Neurology published online May 26, 2021 DOI 10.1212/WNL.0000000000012264
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