The spectrum of krabbe disease in Greece: Biochemical and molecular findings

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Krabbe disease is an autosomal recessive neurodegenerative lysosomal storage disease caused by the deficiency of β-galactocerebrosidase. This deficiency results in the impaired degradation of β-galactocerebroside, a major myelin lipid, and of galactosylsphingosine. Based on the age of onset of neurological symptoms, an infantile form (90% patients) and late-onset forms (10% patients) of the disease are recognized. Over 130 disease-causing mutations have been identified in the β-galactocerebrosidase gene. We present the biochemical and molecular findings in 19 cases of Krabbe disease, 17 of them unrelated, diagnosed in Greece over the last 30 years. β-Galactocerebrosidase activity assayed in leukocyte homogenates using either the tritium-labeled or the fluorescent substrate was diagnostic for all. Increased plasma chitotriosidase activity was found in 11/15 patients. Mutational analysis, carried out in 11 unrelated cases, identified seven different mutations, four previously described (p.I250T, c.1161+6532_polyA+9kbdel, p.K139del, p.D187V) and three novel mutations (p.D610A, c.583-1 G>C, p.W132X), and seven distinct genotypes. The most prevalent mutation was mutation p.I250T, first described in a patient of Greek origin. It accounted for 36.4% (8/22) of the mutant alleles. The second most frequent mutation was c.1161+6532_polyA+9kbdel that accounted for 22.7% (5/22) of the mutant alleles. The observed frequency was lower than that described in Northern European countries and closer to that described in Italian patients.

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Dimitriou, E., Cozar, M., Mavridou, I., Grinberg, D., Vilageliu, L., & Michelakakis, H. (2016). The spectrum of krabbe disease in Greece: Biochemical and molecular findings. In JIMD Reports (Vol. 25, pp. 57–64). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/8904_2015_457

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