ALDH18A1 gene mutations cause dominant spastic paraplegia SPG9: loss of function effect and plausibility of a dominant negative mechanism

  • Brain. 2016 Jan;139(Pt 1):e3. doi: 10.1093/brain/awv247.
Emanuele Panza  1 ,  Juan M Escamilla-Honrubia  2 ,  Clara Marco-Marín  3 ,  Nadine Gougeard  3 ,  Giuseppe De Michele  4 ,  Vincenzo Brescia Morra  4 ,  Rocco Liguori  5 ,  Leonardo Salviati  6 ,  Maria Alice Donati  7 ,  Roberto Cusano  8 ,  Tommaso Pippucci  9 ,  Roberto Ravazzolo  10 ,  Andrea H Németh  11 ,  Sarah Smithson  12 ,  Sally Davies  13 ,  Jane A Hurst  14 ,  Domenico Bordo  15 ,  Vicente Rubio  3 ,  Marco Seri  9
Affiliations
  • 1. 1 Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112, Utah, USA 2 Department of Medical and Surgical Science, University of Bologna, Bologna 40138, Italy [email protected].
  • 2. 3 Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia of the CSIC, Valencia 46010, Spain.
  • 3. 3 Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia of the CSIC, Valencia 46010, Spain 4 Group 739, Centro para Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Raras CIBERER-ISCIII, Valencia, Spain.
  • 4. 5 Department of Neurosciences and Reproductive and Odontostomatologic Sciences, University Federico II, Naples 80138, Italy.
  • 5. 6 IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna 40139, Italy 7 Department of Biomedical and NeuroMotor Sciences, University of Bologna 40139, Italy.
  • 6. 8 Clinical Genetics Unit, Department of Woman and Child Health, University of Padova 35128, Italy 9 IRP Città della Speranza, Padova 35129, Italy.
  • 7. 10 A. Meyer Institute, Firenze 50139, Italy.
  • 8. 11 Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica (IRGB), CNR, Cagliari 09042, Italy 12 CRS4, Parco Tecnologico della Sardegna, Cagliari 09010, Italy.
  • 9. 2 Department of Medical and Surgical Science, University of Bologna, Bologna 40138, Italy.
  • 10. 13 Medical Genetics Unit, G. Gaslini Institute, Genova 16147, Italy 14 University of Genova, DINOGMI Department, Genova 16147, Italy.
  • 11. 15 Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK 16 Department of Clinical Genetics, Churchill Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, UK.
  • 12. 17 Department of Clinical Genetics, St Michael's Hospital Bristol BS8 4LL, UK.
  • 13. 18 Institute of Medical Genetics, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK.
  • 14. 19 Department of Clinical Genetics, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK.
  • 15. 20 IRCCS AOU San Martino - IST. Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genova 16132, Italy.