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25.01.2021 | Original Communication
A compound heterozygous PINK1-associated juvenile Parkinson’s disease with pregnancy in Chinese
verfasst von:
Jun-ying Li, Nan-nan Li, Ling Wang, Jia-xin Peng, Li-ren Duan, Chao-lan Chen, Rong Peng
Erschienen in:
Journal of Neurology
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Ausgabe 6/2021
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Abstract
Background
PINK1 mutations are the second most common cause of recessive, early-onset Parkinson’s disease (EOPD), of which 15% are cases of juvenile PD. PD is a progressive neurological disease that primarily affects middle-aged and older people. Thus PD patients experiencing pregnancy is uncommon, especially in patients with juvenile PD caused by PINK1 mutations. We are first to report a woman from a Chinese family diagnosed with sporadic juvenile PD and treated with levodopa/benserazide throughout pregnancy.
Methods
Whole exome sequencing was performed on this patient, and pedigree verification was performed on her parents. This patient received levodopa/benserazide treatment with regular outpatient follow-up exams.
Results
Whole exome sequencing and Sanger sequencing identified a heterozygous nonsense mutation (c.1474C > T, p.R492X) and a splicing mutation (c.1488 + 1G > A) that were in exon 7 of the PINK1 gene, co-segregating with the PD phenotype and exhibiting an autosomal recessive pattern. With regular outpatient follow-up exams, this patient delivered a healthy boy without complications. Her PD symptoms were stable with the levodopa/benserazide treatment throughout her pregnancy except in the postpartum period.
Conclusion
Our findings further demonstrated the safety of levodopa with dopa-decarboxylase treatment in PINK1-associated juvenile PD during pregnancy.