【初稿】 肌阵挛性肌张力障碍

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肌张力障碍11,遗传性特发性肌阵挛,肌阵挛性肌张力障碍
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翻译者:商慧芳,陈永平

Initial Posting: 2017-09-01 11:51:55; Last Update: 2018-05-30 02:43:08.

概要

临床特点.

肌阵挛性肌张力障碍(M-D)是一种运动障碍,特征为快速、短暂的肌肉收缩(肌阵挛)和/或持续的扭转和重复运动组合而导致姿势异常(肌张力障碍)。典型M-D的肌阵挛发作最常影响颈部,躯干和上肢,而腿部不常见。大约50%的患者有额外的局灶性或节段性肌张力障碍,表现为颈部肌张力障碍和/或书写痉挛。 非运动症状可能包括强迫症(OCD),抑郁,焦虑,人格障碍,酒精滥用和惊恐发作。通常在儿童期或青春期早期发病,但范围可从六个月到八十岁。大多数成年患者有摄入酒精后肌阵挛显著减少的报道。M-D患者的寿命与正常人相似。

诊断/检查.

肌阵挛性肌张力障碍的诊断是基于临床表现,家族史,缺乏其他神经功能受损和神经影像学检查显示正常而建立的。大部分家族性M-D病例与SGCE的致病突变有关。两个其他基因,DRD2DYT1的致病突变也与M-D相关这些突变的意义是未知的。分子检测包括SGCE 序列的/的分析。

治疗.

对症治疗苯二氮卓类(特别是氯硝西泮)用于治疗肌阵挛性肌张力障碍可改善肌阵挛和震颤。抗癫痫药物(丙戊酸盐,托吡酯)可能会改善肌阵挛,但疗效不确切。抗胆碱药物可能会改善肌张力障碍肉毒杆菌毒素注射对颈部肌张力障碍尤其有效。已经报道了使用左旋5-羟色氨酸,左旋多巴和羟基乙酸钠盐可改善症状。立体定向丘脑损毁术可以改善肌阵挛,但会引起构音障碍和偏瘫。深部脑刺激已改善了数位患者的肌阵挛和肌张力障碍,目前尚不清楚以苍白球(GPi)为靶点治疗是否比以丘脑腹侧中间核为靶点(VIM)更为有效。

其他M-D的症状通常随着饮酒而短期改善,但有成瘾的风险,故建议不要长期使用。


遗传咨询

肌阵挛性肌张力障碍以方式遗传。患M-D可能是从父母遗传了这种疾病,或者是由于而导致的由新生突变引起的病例比例未知。M-D患者的每个孩子都有50%的概率遗传到致病突变。 一般来说,来源母系的SGCE等位基因不表达,来源父系的SGCE等位基因会表达。 因此,几乎所有从父亲遗传SGCE致病突变的孩子都会出现症状,而接近95%的从母亲遗传SGCE致病突变的孩子不会。 产前检查和对已知有致病突变的家族是可行的。

诊断

临床诊断

以下肌阵挛性肌张力障碍(M-D)的诊断标准修订自  and ,由根据已证实有DYT11SGCE的家族提出。

  • 肌阵挛的发作,通常在几岁时或十几岁时除了肌阵挛之外,超过一半的患者也观察到肌张力障碍特征肌张力障碍很少是疾病的唯一表现。

  •  男性和女性的概率基本相同。
  • 在大多数情况下,相对良性的病例病情通常是变化的,但与正常人的寿命相似。
  • 常染色体显性具有不同的严重程度和不完全的,这取决于疾病的亲本来源在大多数情况下,有症状的个体从他/她的父亲遗传

  •  没有痴呆,共济失调和其他神经功能缺损。
  • 正常体感诱发电位 (SSEP)
  • 正常神经影像结果(CT or MRI)。注意:退行性改变可能被认为是慢性酒精摄入的结果。

可选诊断标准:

  • 酒精摄入可缓解症状(特别是肌阵挛和肌张力障碍程度减轻)
  • 各种精神病症状

注意:脑电图正常是诊断标准然而,有两个在遗传上证实的M-D伴癫痫,同时EEG异常的报道[]。因此,EEG改变和癫痫不应再被视为排除标准。   

检查

一般来说,M-D患者的所有实验室检查都是正常的。肝功能异常可能是慢性酒精摄入的结果。

分子遗传学检测

基因.  编码蛋白质ε-肌糖蛋白的SGCEDYT11)是已知导致M-D的唯一致病突变

异质性的证据. 在约30%-40%具有典型M-D的人中检测到 SGCE(见表1) 

在散发性和病例中,某些病例没有可识别的SGCE致病突变的的报道 [],表明了的异质性。

另外,其他两个基因的致病突变已经发现与少数散发/家族中的M-D相关。

表1.

肌阵挛性肌张力障碍中使用的分子遗传学检测总结

基因 1检测方法检测到的致病突变2检出突变频率3
家族性4单一性5, 6, 7
SGCE序列分析8突变序列9~30%-50%~10%-15%
缺失/分析10外显子或全缺失未知11
1.
2.

有关等位基因突变的信息,请参阅分子遗传学

3.

用于检测指定突变的检测方法的效能

4.

病例的突变检出率在0100%之间,高度偏向联系研究平均而言,文献综合比率接近50%。当父系传播时,检出率增加。[].

5.
6.

HGMD中列出了85种致病突变(参见表A.基因和数据库);一些是确定的致病突变[].

7.

有两名先证者似乎表现为病例,但随后其父亲检出[].

8.

序列分析检测良性,可能良性,,可能致病或致病的突变致病突变可能包括小的基因缺失/插入和突变;通常,没有检测到或全缺失/重复。要解释结果的相关问题,请点击这里

9.

至今,绝大多数(95%)的SGCE致病突变在外显子1-7中发现其余约5%在外显子9中发现

10.

通过基因组DNA的编码和侧翼内含子区域的序列分析不易检测或全缺失/重复可以使用多种方法,包括,远距离PCR,多重连接依赖性探针扩增(MLPA)或靶向分析(基因/片段特异性)。检测基因组中缺失/重复的全染色体微阵列分析也可能包括该基因/片段

11.

 外显子和全缺失可能占SGCE致病突变的相对较小百分比[].

检测策略

建立

  • 肌阵挛性肌张力障碍的诊断是临床诊断。
  • SGCE分子遗传学检测可能有助于澄清不明确的诊断和用于遗传咨询

对有风险的无症状成年家庭成员的检测需要事先鉴定家族中的

对有风险的怀孕进行产前诊断 (PGD)需要事先鉴定家族中的

临床特点

临床描述

肌阵挛性肌张力障碍(M-D)是一种运动障碍,特征为快速,简单的肌肉收缩(肌阵挛)和/或持续的扭转和重复运动的组合而导致姿势异常(肌张力障碍)。症状首发通常在儿童期或青春期早期,尤其在有SGCE 的家庭,但范围可从六个月到超过八十岁,不管有没有被识别的致病突变。[].

虽然有报道大部分成人的肌阵挛对酒精摄入有强烈的反应 [],但酒精摄取后出现的缓解在家庭内和不同家庭之间有差异。

典型M-D的肌阵挛发作是短暂的,闪电般的运动,最经常影响颈部,躯干和上肢,腿部不太明显。肌阵挛是M-D的代表性表现。也有报道过喉部肌阵挛。[].

大约一半的个体(54%)有局限性或节段性肌张力障碍,表现为颈部肌张力障碍和/或书写痉挛 []。与原发性扭转性肌张力障碍相反[],下肢被波及是罕见的,通常在发病时并不发生。此外,肌张力障碍在疾病过程中不会恶化或泛化。肌张力障碍极少疾病唯一的表现。

不自主运动经常因身体部位的主动运动而产生或恶化。诱发或加重的其他因素包括应激 [],突发噪声[],咖啡因 []和触觉刺激 []

其他神经特征主要包括姿势性和其他形式的震颤 []。

最突出的非运动特征是精神疾病,在一些家族中有报道 [],但不是所有家族都有[]。然而,没有系统地研究这些患M-D家族的精神疾病,也不知道这些特征是否与引起M-D的分离。报道过的精神问题包括:

详细研究了与 7q 有联系的三个家族的精神病学特征,并发现了OCD和M-D间的联系。这个发现被支持,并且在遗传学证实的病例中证实了这一点,他们报道了另几个家族中OCD和M-D的联合。

其他神经系统症状包括痴呆和共济失调在M-D中很少见 []。在两个家庭中已经报道有癫痫发作,但这一发现的意义尚不清楚 []

M-D患者可以达到正常人的寿命[]。

尽管有报道M-D的自行缓解,[],在某些病例中, M-D可能逐渐进展[]并且可能产生相当大的功能障碍并导致提前退休[]。

神经生理学和神经影像学

在对M-D患者的神经生理学研究中,包括常规脑电图( EEG),多导肌动扫描和躯体感觉诱发电位(SEPs),都是正常的[]。

记录了M-D患者在休息,活动或站立中有皮层下起源的短暂痉挛。

发现了包括脑干和新皮层系统功能障碍的神经生理学征象

 确定了肌张力障碍的M-D患者的正常皮质内抑制,并表明皮质功能障碍的作用可能不那么突出,M-D中肌张力障碍的机制可能与其他肌张力障碍不同。

另一项神经生理学研究表明,苍白球内(GPi)深部脑刺激(DBS)导致肌阵挛的频率和幅度显着下降,并缓解肌张力障碍,表明在M-D中,苍白球对这些运动机能亢进的特征有产生作用,至少是调节作用,或二者兼有[]。

功能性MRI研究支持皮质下激活[]:

  • 在对遗传学证实的M-D个体进行的18F-FDG PET中表明,在双侧丘脑和小脑中出现显著的高代谢
  • 在遗传学证实的五岁女性M-D患者的功能性MRI中显示在丘脑和齿状核内的特异性激活[]。已经证明了M-D中纹状体 D2受体结合的减少[]以及额颞叶和纹状体SPECT的异常 []。

基因型-表型相关性

SGCE-相关性仍是未知的。

外显率

已经观察到疾病的母系传播的下降,表明SGCE的母系抑制了母系遗传的SGCE等位基因的表达[]。

早现遗传

尚未观察到M-D的早现遗传。

系统命名法

曾用于肌阵挛性肌张力障碍的术语包括肌阵挛肌张力障碍,遗传性肌阵挛肌张力障碍综合征,酒精反应性肌阵挛肌张力障碍,遗传性特发性肌阵挛和DYT11肌张力障碍[]。

当具有DYT1个体有肌阵挛运动或其他形式的原发性肌张力障碍时,就称为肌阵挛性肌张力障碍综合征[]。

流行

M-D的流行知之甚少然而,这种疾病已经在许多国家的家庭中被描述,包括欧洲,德国,爱尔兰,土耳其,巴西和加拿大

遗传相关 (等位基因) 疾病

已知没有其他SGCE中的致病突变相关。

微缺失 7q21. 然而,至少有6名包括SGCE的间隙性缺失的患者已有描述:5名患有典型的 M-D,1名9岁,没有 M-D症状,有掌裂/足裂畸形和感觉神经性听力损失。这个孩子和另一个患者有面部畸形和认知延迟。这六名患者的其他表现包括身材矮小(4),关节松弛(3),骨折(2),严重的早期全身性骨质疏松症,股骨头坏死和软骨缺损,导致25岁之前行髋关节和膝关节置换(1),蓝色巩膜和脑海绵状血管畸形(1)以及牙齿发育不全(1)。这些表现最有可能是包括COL1A2KRIT1在内的多个连续基因的结果[]。

另外一个M-D患者,语言发育迟缓,畸形特征和类似新发的平衡易位的特征,随后发现具有7q21和9q23的微缺失[]。

鉴别诊断

家族性肌张力障碍疾病,包括Wilson病脊髓小脑性共济失调3型 (SCA3), 维生素E缺乏性共济失调和其他继发性肌张力障碍,通常可以根据实验室检查和神经影像学研究(包括MRI)与M-D鉴别(各种遗传和继发性肌张力障碍,参见肌张力障碍概览 and )。

一名遗传学证实的多巴胺反应性肌张力障碍患者 []和一名遗传学证实的脊髓小脑性共济失调14型(SCA14) 患者[],表现为肌阵挛性肌张力障碍。

多数以多样化的神经系统症状和体征,以肌阵挛为突出特征的其他病症通常与M-D的诊断无关。以肌阵挛为主要表现的遗传性疾病包括:

NKX2-1中由致病突变引起的良性遗传性舞蹈病(BHC)的表现可能与M-D中有些相似;然而,与M-D动作诱发的肌阵挛相反,BHC患者在复杂运动中并不表现出痉挛的加重。由于甲状腺机能减退和该中的致病突变与BHC相关,应考虑对患者行甲状腺激素筛查。参见OMIM 118700610978600635

治疗

初步诊断后评估

为了确定诊断为肌阵挛性肌张力障碍(M-D)的个体的疾病程度和需求,建议进行以下评估:

  • 临床检查评估肌张力障碍的部位,严重程度和进展以及肌阵挛的严重程度和进展,最好由专攻运动障碍的神经病学家完成。

  • MRI

  • 临床遗传学咨询

对症治疗

药物可能改善肌阵挛或肌张力障碍或两者兼有:

注意:虽然 M-D 的症状通常随摄入酒精而缓解,但长期摄入酒精的风险使该治疗方案不被接受。

手术. 立体定向丘脑切开术可以改善肌阵挛,但一个个体产生了构音障碍,另一个发生轻度偏瘫[]。在另外两个病例,肌阵挛有改善,但运动功能没有明显改善[]。

深部脑刺激 (DBS). 在最近的一项研究中,10名M-D患者(9名患者携带SGCE)仅行内侧苍白球术(GPi)(1人),仅丘脑腹侧中间核(VIM)或GPi及VIM(8人)的DBS。肌阵挛(61.5%)和肌张力障碍(48.2%)均有显著改善。没有发现到对认知或情绪反应的不良影响。 VIM DBS的可逆性不良事件发生率略高一些,可能采用VIM vs GPi DBS治疗的患者略有改善。作者还注意到,四倍VIM / GPi刺激可能比单独刺激VIM或GPi更有效[]。

案例研究的结果总结如下:

  •  2岁出现症状的63岁患者,即使在50多年后,也对DBS有反应,M-D有改善[]。

  • 对于医学难治性和进行性发展的遗传性M-D患者,采用丘脑腹侧中间核(VIM)的神经刺激导致肌阵挛评分降低80%,但对肌张力障碍没有显著影响。在VIM刺激后,遗传证实M-D的第二名患者的肌阵挛评分降低了14%[]。

  • 内侧苍白球(GPi)的DBS改善了两个人的肌阵挛和肌张力障碍 [],其中之一确认有SGCE []。

  • 内侧苍白球的DBS在八周的随访中改善了肌阵挛和肌张力障碍[]。

预防继发并发症

由于摄入酒精的自我治疗很常见,对酒精滥用的适当治疗和咨询可能会降低酒精相关的毒性,特别是在青少年中。

风险亲属评估

有关风险亲属基于目的的检测等相关问题,请参阅遗传咨询 。

研究中的治疗方法

搜索ClinicalTrials.gov 获取关于各种疾病和病症的临床研究的信息。注意:这种疾病可能没有临床试验

遗传咨询

遗传咨询是向个人和家庭提供关于遗传疾病的性质,遗 传和影响的信息,以帮助他们做出明智的医疗和个人决定的过程。以下部分涉及遗传风险评估和使用家族史和遗传检测来澄清家庭成员的遗传状况。本节并不意味着 解决个人面临的所有个人,文化或伦理问题,或代替咨询遗传学专业人士。 —ED.

遗传模式

肌阵挛性肌张力障碍以方式遗传,降低。外显率与母系有关,因此,是基于的亲本起源。一般来说,母系来源的SGCE等位基因不表达,而父系来源的SGCE等位基因表达。

家庭成员的风险

的双亲

的同胞

  • 同胞的风险取决于父母的遗传状况。

  • 如果的父母,则同胞遗传致病的风险为50%。

  • 致病SGCE的表达受传播等位基因()的亲本性别的影响。

    • 如果SGCE致病是从父亲遗传的,那么它通常被表达,后代大多数情况是有症状的。

    • 如果SGCE致病遗传自母亲,那么大多数情况下并不表达,并且孩子仍然无症状。然而,大约5%的从母亲遗传的个体确实会出现症状。这些症状可能比从父亲那里遗传致病突变的个体轻微。

  •  由于,同胞的严重程度可能与或多或少存在差异。

  • 如果在任一亲本的DNA中都不能检测到,则两个可能的解释分别为亲本中的致病突变。虽然没有种系嵌合体的病例报道,但仍是有可能的。

的后代

的其他家庭成员. 其他家庭成员的风险取决于先证者父母的遗传状况:如果父母或患有致病,其家庭成员就有风险。

相关遗传咨询问题

虽然诊断为M-D的大多数个体已经遗传了父母的致病,但家族史可能由于的影响或由于未能识别家族成员的功能障碍而显示为阴性。由于家庭成员有可能用酒精自我治疗,酗酒的家族史可能提示有其他患病亲属。

对有明显家族的非医学考察. 当具有症状的的双亲都不具有该病症的致病突变或临床证据时,可能是先证者具有新生致病突变。然而,也可以探讨可能的非医疗解释,包括或母亲(例如辅助生殖)或未公开的收养。

对有风险无症状家族成员的检测. 使用分子遗传学检测中描述的技术,可以检测肌阵挛性肌张力障碍的有风险无症状家族成员。这种检测无法预测无症状个体的发病年龄,严重程度,症状类型或进展速度。然而,成年人不太可能出现症状,特别是当通过母亲遗传时。当检测高风险的肌阵挛性肌张力障碍个体时,应首先检测的家族成员,以确认家族中的分子诊断。

家庭计划

  • 确定遗传风险的最佳时间和产前检测的可用性讨论是在怀孕之前。

  • 或有风险的年轻成人提供(包括讨论后代和生殖的潜在风险)是合情合理的。

DNA银行 是存储DNA(通常从白细胞中提取)以备日后使用的。因为检测方法和我们对基因,等位基因变异和疾病的理解在将来会有所改进,所以应该考虑将个体的DNA存储到DNA银行。

产前检测和胚胎植入前遗传诊断

一旦在家庭成员中鉴定出,高风险怀孕的是可行的选择。

资源

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  • Dystonia Medical Research Foundation
    One East Wacker Drive
    Suite 2810
    Chicago IL 60601-1905
    Phone: 800-377-3978 (toll-free); 312-755-0198
    Fax: 312-803-0138
    Email: dystonia@dystonia-foundation.org
  • Dystonia Society
    89 Albert Embankment
    3rd Floor
    London SE1 7TP
    United Kingdom
    Phone: 0845 458 6211; 0845 458 6322 (Helpline)
    Fax: 0845 458 6311
    Email: support@dystonia.org.uk
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
    PO Box 5801
    Bethesda MD 20824
    Phone: 800-352-9424 (toll-free); 301-496-5751; 301-468-5981 (TTY)
  • Global Dystonia Registry

分子遗传学

分子遗传学和OMIM表中的信息可能与GeneReview中的其他信息不同:表中可能包含更多最新信息 —ED.

表 A.

肌阵挛性肌张力障碍:基因和数据库

基因染色体位点蛋白质位点特异性HGMD
SGCE7q21​.3Epsilon-sarcoglycanSGCE homepage - Leiden Muscular Dystrophy pagesSGCE

数据来自以下标准参考文献:基因来自HGNC;染色体位点,基因座名称,临界区,互补基团来自OMIM;蛋白质来自UniProt。有关提供链接的数据库(Locus Specific,HGMD)的描述,请点击此处

表 B.

OMIM中有关肌阵挛性肌张力障碍的词条 (View All in OMIM)

159900DYSTONIA 11, MYOCLONIC; DYT11
604149SARCOGLYCAN, EPSILON; SGCE

基因结构. SGCE包含12个外显子,其中10差异拼接,并在大部分转录本缺失 []。已经鉴定了小鼠脑中影响编码蛋白质C末端的其他可变剪接突变[]。基因,欲了解和蛋白质信息的详细总结参见表 A

致病的等位基因突变. 所有已被报道的SGCE突变类型:突变,缺失和插入导致移码和错误[]。

SGCE中的外显子缺失也可能导致M-D []。

迄今描述的大多数致病突变已被定位于外显子3-7和9,暗示该的这个区域对于功能是很重要的。四个突变,p.Arg97Ter,p.Trp100Ter,p.Arg102Ter(全部在3)和p.Arg372Ter(外显子9)以及两个小缺失(在外显子4和7中)[]已在不止一个中被发现,似乎是复发的突变。 (有关更多信息,请参见表 A

表 2.

选择的SGCE致病突变

DNA核苷酸变化预测蛋白质变化
(别名1)
参考序列
c.289C>Tp.Arg97TerNM_001099401​.1 NP_001092871​.1
c.587T>Gp.Leu196Arg
c.300G>Ap.Trp100Ter
c.304C>Tp.Arg102Ter
c.771_772delATp.C258Ter
c.835_839delACAAAp.Thr279AlafsTer17
(Lys278fs295Ter)
c.1114C>Tp.Arg372Ter

关于突变分类的注释:表中列出的变体由作者提供。GeneReviews的工作人员尚未独立验证突变的分类。


关于命名的注意事项:GeneReviews遵循人类基因组变异学会 (varnomen​.hgvs.org)的标准命名约定。有关命名的说明,请参见快速参考

1.

不符合当前命名约定的突变名称

有关目前已知的所有致病突变的摘要,请参见表 3(pdf)。 

正常SGCE 编码ε-肌糖蛋白。 SGCE是一个基因家族成员,它还包括α,β,γ,δ和ζ-肌糖蛋白。这些其他肌糖蛋白家族成员的隐性致病突变导致各种类型的肢体肌营养不良 (见的综述 )。在肌肉中,这些基因编码肌营养不良蛋白 - 糖蛋白复合物的跨膜组分,其将细胞骨架与细胞外基质连接。然而,SGCE在身体的许多组织[] 中广泛表达,包括在发育和成年期间脑的各个区域[] 。大脑中ε-肌糖蛋白的功能是未知的。

异常. 据推测,由于母体转录沉默SGCE,绝大多数从其父亲遗传疾病的,该疾病是由该蛋白质的功能丧失引起的。然而,遗传其母亲致病突变等位基因的约5%的患病个体,并且可能也表达来自父亲的等位基因。因此,疾病的发病机制尚不完全清楚。

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修订历史

  • 26 January 2012 (me) Comprehensive update posted live
  • 19 December 2005 (me) Comprehensive update posted to live Web site
  • 11 June 2004 (ljo/cd) Revision: testing
  • 21 May 2003 (me) Review posted to live Web site
  • 5 May 2003 (ljo) Original submission