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ArticleAnnals of clinical and translational neurology2020

Multimodal evaluation of an Italian family with a hereditary spastic paraplegia and POLR3A mutations.

Lucia Ruggiero, Aniello Iovino, Raffaele Dubbioso, Sirio Cocozza, Rosanna Trovato, Francesco Aruta, Giuseppe Pontillo, Melissa Barghigiani, Arturo Brunetti, Filippo Maria Santorelli and 2 more

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Article in Annals of clinical and translational neurology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Frontiers in genetics · 2026
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  2. Spinal cord-predominant neuropathology in an adult-onset case of POLR3A-related spastic ataxia.Neuropathology : official journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Lucia RuggieroDepartment of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, University Federico II of Naples, Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7756-9567
Aniello IovinoDepartment of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, University Federico II of Naples, Naples, Italy.
Raffaele DubbiosoDepartment of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, University Federico II of Naples, Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2487-4741
Sirio CocozzaDepartment of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.
Rosanna TrovatoMolecular Medicine, IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris, Calambrone, Pisa, Italy.
Francesco ArutaDepartment of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, University Federico II of Naples, Naples, Italy.
Giuseppe PontilloDepartment of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5425-1890
Melissa BarghigianiMolecular Medicine, IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris, Calambrone, Pisa, Italy.
Arturo BrunettiDepartment of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.
Filippo Maria SantorelliMolecular Medicine, IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris, Calambrone, Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1359-9062
Fiore ManganelliDepartment of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, University Federico II of Naples, Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9478-3744
Rosa IodiceDepartment of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, University Federico II of Naples, Naples, Italy.
University of Naples Federico II · ITFondazione Stella Maris · ITSDN Istituto di Ricerca Diagnostica e Nucleare · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We describe an Italian family with adult-onset pure hereditary spastic paraplegia due to biallelic variants in POLR3A gene [c.1909 + 22G > A and c.3839dupT (p.M1280fs*20]. MRI showed a mild hyperintensity of superior cerebellar peduncles and cervical spinal cord atrophy. The neurophysiological metrics about intracortical excitability showed higher values of motor thresholds and a significant reduction of short interval intracortical inhibition (SICI) in the patient with a more severe phenotype. Our multimodal evaluation further expands the wide phenotypic spectrum associated with mutations in the POLR3A gene. An extensive genotype-phenotype correlation study is necessary to explain the role of the many new mutations on the function of protein.

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Spastic Paraplegia, HereditaryAgedAge of OnsetCortical ExcitabilityFemaleHumansItalyMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMiddle AgedPedigreeRNA Polymerase IIISiblingsPOLR3A protein, humanRNA Polymerase III

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PMID33085208
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