1. Department of Neurology and Research Center of Neurology in Second Affiliated Hospital, and Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310009, China 2. Department of Neurology, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai 200040, China
Proline-rich transmembrane protein 2 (PRRT2) is the leading cause of paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia (PKD), benign familial infantile epilepsy (BFIE), and infantile convulsions with choreoathetosis (ICCA). Reduced penetrance of PRRT2 has been observed in previous studies, whereas the exact penetrance has not been evaluated well. The objective of this study was to estimate the penetrance of PRRT2 and determine its influencing factors. We screened 222 PKD index patients and their available relatives, identified 39 families with pathogenic or likely pathogenic (P/LP) PRRT2 variants via Sanger sequencing, and obtained 184 PKD/BFIE/ICCA families with P/LP PRRT2 variants from the literature. Penetrance was estimated as the proportion of affected variant carriers. PRRT2 penetrance estimate was 77.6% (95% confidence interval (CI) 74.5%–80.7%) in relatives and 74.5% (95% CI 70.2%–78.8%) in obligate carriers. In addition, we first observed that penetrance was higher in truncated than in non-truncated variants (75.8% versus 50.0%, P = 0.01), higher in Asian than in Caucasian carriers (81.5% versus 68.5%, P = 0.004), and exhibited no difference in gender or parental transmission. Our results are meaningful for genetic counseling, implying that approximately three-quarters of PRRT2 variant carriers will develop PRRT2-related disorders, with patients from Asia or carrying truncated variants at a higher risk.
Total variant carriers (excluding index patients), n
693
61
632
?Affected, n
538
46
492
?Penetrance 1, % (95% CI)
77.6 (74.5–80.7)
75.4 (64.3–86.5)
77.8 (74.6–81.1)
0.663b
Total obligate carriers, n
396
43
353
?Affected, n
295
29
266
?Penetrance 2, % (95% CI)
74.5 (70.2–78.8)
67.4 (51.5–80.9)
75.4 (70.8–79.9)
0.261b
Tab.3
Obligate carriers, n
Affected, n
Penetrance, % (95% CI)
P value
Variant type
0.01a
??Truncated variants
376
285
75.8 (71.4–80.1)
???Frameshift
355
267
75.2 (70.7–79.7)
???Nonsense
18
16
88.9 (65.3–98.6)
???Splice site
3
2
/
??Non-truncated variants
20
10
50.0 (27.2–72.8)
???Missense
19
9
47.4 (24.5–71.1)
???Non-frameshift deletion
1
1
/
Gender
0.271b
??Male
193
139
72.0 (65.6–78.4)
??Female
203
156
76.8 (71.0–82.7)
Parental transmission
0.334b
??Maternal
73
66
90.4 (83.5–97.3)
??Paternal
67
57
85.1 (76.3–93.8)
??Unknown
255
/
/
??De novo
1
/
/
Ethnic origin
??Asian
178
145
81.5 (75.7–87.2)
0.004c
??Caucasian
197
135
68.5 (62.0–75.1)
??African American
2
2
/
??Unknown
19
/
/
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