ABCMdb

ABCA4 p.Asn1436Ile

Predicted by SNAP2:	A: D (53%), C: D (53%), D: N (72%), E: N (66%), F: D (63%), G: N (66%), H: N (72%), I: D (53%), K: N (72%), L: D (59%), M: D (59%), P: N (53%), Q: N (66%), R: N (72%), S: N (82%), T: N (78%), V: N (53%), W: D (85%), Y: D (63%),
Predicted by PROVEAN:	A: D, C: D, D: N, E: N, F: D, G: N, H: N, I: D, K: N, L: D, M: D, P: D, Q: N, R: N, S: N, T: N, V: D, W: D, Y: D,

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[hide] Cerebral Involvement in Stargardt's Disease: A VBM... Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2015 Nov 1;56(12):7388-97. doi: 10.1167/iovs.15-16899. Gaia O, Melillo P, Sirio C, D'Alterio FM, Prinster A, Testa F, Brunetti A, Simonelli F, Quarantelli M
Cerebral Involvement in Stargardt's Disease: A VBM and TBSS Study.
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2015 Nov 1;56(12):7388-97. doi: 10.1167/iovs.15-16899., [PMID:26574798]

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PURPOSE: To assess whether and to what extent macro- and/or microstructural modifications are present in the brain of patients with selective central visual loss due to a juvenile macular degeneration, Stargardt's disease (STGD), taking advantage of the complementary information provided by voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). METHODS: Eighteen patients with clinical and molecular diagnosis of STGD related to ABCA4 mutations and 23 normally sighted volunteers of comparable age and sex were enrolled. Structural T1-weighted (T1w) volumes, for brain tissue volume assessment by segmentation, and DTI, for the investigation of diffusivity parameters via a tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) procedure, were acquired at 3 Tesla in all subjects. All patients underwent a complete ophthalmologic examination, including best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), biomicroscopy, ophthalmoscopy, electroretinography (ERG), microperimetry, and optical coherence tomography (OCT). Correlations between imaging data and clinical measures were tested. RESULTS: Stargardt's disease patients showed a significant gray matter (GM) loss bilaterally in the occipital cortices, extending into the right precuneus, and in the fronto-orbital cortices. At TBSS, significant reductions in fractional anisotropy were detected throughout large regions in the supratentorial white matter (WM), more pronounced in the posterior areas. Gray matter volume correlated directly with mean visual sensitivity in the right middle frontal and left calcarine gyri, and inversely with retinal thickness in the left supramarginal gyrus. CONCLUSIONS: In STGD, widespread microstructural WM alterations are present, suggestive of minor fiber loss coupled with GM loss, also in cortical regions not traditionally linked to visual pathways, at least partly related to the retinal damage.

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81 Demographic and Genetic Data of STGD Patients Age Sex ABCR Mutations Age of Onset 19 F 250insCAAA G1961E D498N 4017ins24bp 11 18 M L541P/A1038V IVS40&#fe;5g->a 14 25 M L541P/A1038V G1961E 17 15 F G1961E R2149X 13 48 M N96D IVS40&#fe;5G>A 38 29 M G1961E L1938L L1894L S1689P 25 23 F L541P/A1038V F655C 14 33 M R152Q G1961E 402ins24bp 18 21 M A60V G1961E 15 23 M G690V A1598D 11 27 M G1961E R2149X 11 51 F V615A G1961E 25 54 M N96D N1436I 28 21 M 250insCAAA P402A 13 25 F R1448K c.5018&#fe;2T>C 21 49 M 4538insC IVS40&#fe;5G>A 18 23 F G1961E c.6282&#fe;1G>C 18 46 M N96D N1436I 30 T ABLE 4. Login to comment