A Genetics Pearl for Counseling Patients with Epsilon-Sarcoglycan Myoclonus-Dystonia.

Alissa S Higinbotham, Suzanne D DeBrosse, Camilla W Kilbane

Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.) 2023

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Epsilon-sarcoglycan (SGCE) myoclonus-dystonia is autosomal dominant (AD) with reduced penetrance due to maternal imprinting 95% of the time. Patients may lack family history delaying diagnosis and treatment. Additionally, counseling patients on their risk of passing on the variant differs for females versus males. A woman in her thirties with typical phenotype of myoclonus-dystonia but lacking an AD pedigree was found to have a pathogenic variant in the SGCE gene. She was counseled that her daughters each have a 2.5% chance of expressing the phenotype. Understanding the genetics of SGCE-myoclonus-dystonia enables effective genetic counseling and arrival at a timely diagnosis and treatment. In an era of advancing genetic analysis and precision medicine-based treatments, neurologists will be faced with increasing responsibility to properly counsel patients on the results of genetic testing. This case highlights a genetics pearl for counseling patients with epsilon-sarcoglycan myoclonus-dystonia, an autosomal dominant condition with penetrance differing by sex. Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s).

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Alissa S Higinbotham, Suzanne D DeBrosse, Camilla W Kilbane. A Genetics Pearl for Counseling Patients with Epsilon-Sarcoglycan Myoclonus-Dystonia. Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.). 2023;13:24