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ArticleGenes, brain, and behavior2025

Investigating Motor Coordination Using BXD Recombinant Inbred Mice to Model the Genetic Underpinnings of Developmental Coordination Disorder.

Jeffy Rajan Soundara Rajan, Kamaldeep Gill, Eric Chow, David G Ashbrook, Robert W Williams, Jill G Zwicker, Daniel Goldowitz

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Jeffy Rajan Soundara RajanDepartment of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Kamaldeep GillBritish Columbia Children's Hospital Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-5967-1763
Eric ChowCentre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
David G AshbrookDepartment of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7397-8910
Robert W WilliamsDepartment of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Jill G ZwickerBritish Columbia Children's Hospital Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-2986-6938
Daniel GoldowitzDepartment of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-4756-4017

Funding

BC Children's Hospital Research Institute & FoundationCanada Research Chairs 950-233161CIHR 201512MSH-360883-141638CIHR FDN-143258Cordula and Gunter Paetzold FellowshipEffie I. Lefeaux ScholarshipSyd Vernon Graduate Student Award
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Abstract

The fundamental skills for motor coordination and motor control emerge through development. Neurodevelopmental disorders such as developmental coordination disorder (DCD) lead to impaired acquisition of motor skills. This study investigated motor behaviors that reflect the core symptoms of human DCD through the use of BXD recombinant inbred strains of mice that are known to have divergent phenotypes in many behavioral traits, including motor activity. We sought to correlate behavior in basic motor control tasks with the known genotypes of these reference populations of mice using quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping. We used 12 BXD strains with an average of 16 mice per group to assess the onset of reflexes during the early neonatal stage of life and differences in motor coordination using the tests for open field, rotarod, and gait behaviors during the adolescent/young adulthood period. Results indicated significant variability between strains in when neonatal reflexes appeared and significant strain differences for all measures of motor coordination. Five strains (BXD15, BXD27, BXD28, BXD75, BXD86) struggled with sensorimotor coordination as seen in gait analysis, rotarod, and open field, similar to human presentation of DCD. We identified three significant quantitative trait loci for gait on proximal Chr 3, Chr 4, and distal Chr 6. Based on expression, function, and polymorphism within the mapped QTL intervals, seven candidate genes (Gpr63, Spata5, Trpc3, Cntn6, Chl1, Grm7, Ogg1) emerged. This study offers new insights into mouse motor behavior, which promises to be a first murine model to explore the genetics and neural correlates of DCD.

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Motor Skills DisordersAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalFemaleHumansMaleMiceMice, Inbred StrainsMotor ActivityQuantitative Trait LociBXD recombinant inbred strainscandidate genesdevelopmental coordination disordergait analysisheritabilitymotor coordinationneonatal reflexesopen fieldquantitative trait analysisrotarod

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PMCPMC11898013

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