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Melkersson–Rosenthal Syndrome and Migraine: A New Phenotype Associated with SCN1A Variants?
Peripheral facial palsy rarely occurs as part of Melkersson–Rosenthal syndrome (MRS), which is characterized by the classical triad of tongue cheilitis, recurrent episodes of orofacial swelling, and palsy. MRS is a disorder with variable expressivity and clinical as well as genetic heterogeneity; ho...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10378782/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37510386 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes14071482 |
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author | Azzarà, Alessia Cassano, Ilaria Lintas, Carla Pilato, Fabio Capone, Fioravante Di Lazzaro, Vincenzo Gurrieri, Fiorella |
author_facet | Azzarà, Alessia Cassano, Ilaria Lintas, Carla Pilato, Fabio Capone, Fioravante Di Lazzaro, Vincenzo Gurrieri, Fiorella |
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description | Peripheral facial palsy rarely occurs as part of Melkersson–Rosenthal syndrome (MRS), which is characterized by the classical triad of tongue cheilitis, recurrent episodes of orofacial swelling, and palsy. MRS is a disorder with variable expressivity and clinical as well as genetic heterogeneity; however, the causative gene remains to be identified. Migraine is a common neurological disorder, presenting with or without aura, which may be associated with neurological symptoms. The classical example of monogenic migraine is familial hemiplegic migraine (FHM), which has phenotypic variability in carriers of variants in the same gene or even carriers of the same variant. We present a family in which two sisters displayed recurrent migraines, one of which presented recurrent facial palsy and had clinical diagnosis of MRS. We performed WES and Sanger sequencing for segregation analysis in the available family members. We identified a c.3521C>G missense heterozygous variant in SCN1A carried only by the affected sister. Variants in the SCN1A gene can cause a spectrum of early-onset epileptic encephalopathies, in addition to FHM; therefore, our finding reasonably explains the proband phenotype, in which the main symptom was recurrent facial palsy. This report also adds knowledge to the clinical spectrum of SCN1A alterations and suggests a potential overlap between MRS and FHM. |
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spelling | pubmed-103787822023-07-29 Melkersson–Rosenthal Syndrome and Migraine: A New Phenotype Associated with SCN1A Variants? Azzarà, Alessia Cassano, Ilaria Lintas, Carla Pilato, Fabio Capone, Fioravante Di Lazzaro, Vincenzo Gurrieri, Fiorella Genes (Basel) Article Peripheral facial palsy rarely occurs as part of Melkersson–Rosenthal syndrome (MRS), which is characterized by the classical triad of tongue cheilitis, recurrent episodes of orofacial swelling, and palsy. MRS is a disorder with variable expressivity and clinical as well as genetic heterogeneity; however, the causative gene remains to be identified. Migraine is a common neurological disorder, presenting with or without aura, which may be associated with neurological symptoms. The classical example of monogenic migraine is familial hemiplegic migraine (FHM), which has phenotypic variability in carriers of variants in the same gene or even carriers of the same variant. We present a family in which two sisters displayed recurrent migraines, one of which presented recurrent facial palsy and had clinical diagnosis of MRS. We performed WES and Sanger sequencing for segregation analysis in the available family members. We identified a c.3521C>G missense heterozygous variant in SCN1A carried only by the affected sister. Variants in the SCN1A gene can cause a spectrum of early-onset epileptic encephalopathies, in addition to FHM; therefore, our finding reasonably explains the proband phenotype, in which the main symptom was recurrent facial palsy. This report also adds knowledge to the clinical spectrum of SCN1A alterations and suggests a potential overlap between MRS and FHM. MDPI 2023-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10378782/ /pubmed/37510386 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes14071482 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Azzarà, Alessia Cassano, Ilaria Lintas, Carla Pilato, Fabio Capone, Fioravante Di Lazzaro, Vincenzo Gurrieri, Fiorella Melkersson–Rosenthal Syndrome and Migraine: A New Phenotype Associated with SCN1A Variants? |
title | Melkersson–Rosenthal Syndrome and Migraine: A New Phenotype Associated with SCN1A Variants? |
title_full | Melkersson–Rosenthal Syndrome and Migraine: A New Phenotype Associated with SCN1A Variants? |
title_fullStr | Melkersson–Rosenthal Syndrome and Migraine: A New Phenotype Associated with SCN1A Variants? |
title_full_unstemmed | Melkersson–Rosenthal Syndrome and Migraine: A New Phenotype Associated with SCN1A Variants? |
title_short | Melkersson–Rosenthal Syndrome and Migraine: A New Phenotype Associated with SCN1A Variants? |
title_sort | melkersson–rosenthal syndrome and migraine: a new phenotype associated with scn1a variants? |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10378782/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37510386 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes14071482 |
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