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Mutations in XPR1 cause primary familial brain calcification associated with altered phosphate export

  • Andrea Legati
  • , Donatella Giovannini
  • , Gaël Nicolas
  • , Uriel López-Sánchez
  • , Beatriz Quintáns
  • , João R.M. Oliveira
  • , Renee L. Sears
  • , Eliana Marisa Ramos
  • , Elizabeth Spiteri
  • , María Jesús Sobrido
  • , Ángel Carracedo
  • , Cristina Castro-Fernández
  • , Stéphanie Cubizolle
  • , Brent L. Fogel
  • , Cyril Goizet
  • , Joanna C. Jen
  • , Suppachok Kirdlarp
  • , Anthony E. Lang
  • , Zosia Miedzybrodzka
  • , Witoon Mitarnun
  • Martin Paucar, Henry Paulson, Jérémie Pariente, Anne Claire Richard, Naomi S. Salins, Sheila A. Simpson, Pasquale Striano, Per Svenningsson, François Tison, Vivek K. Unni, Olivier Vanakker, Marja W. Wessels, Suppachok Wetchaphanphesat, Michele Yang, Francois Boller, Dominique Campion, Didier Hannequin, Marc Sitbon, Daniel H. Geschwind, Jean Luc Battini, Giovanni Coppola
  • David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
  • Kaiser Permanente
  • Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier
  • University of Montpellier
  • Laboratory of Excellence GR-Ex
  • Laboratory of Excellence EpiGenMed
  • Université René-Descartes
  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Rouen (Center Hospitalier Universitaire de Rouen)
  • Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago
  • Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
  • Federal University of Pernambuco
  • Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
  • University Hospital of Bordeaux
  • Buriram Hospital
  • Toronto Western Hospital University of Toronto
  • University of Aberdeen
  • Karolinska Institutet
  • Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Toulouse University Hospital
  • Université de Toulouse
  • Barrow Neurological Institute
  • Università degli Studi di Genova
  • Oregon Health & Science University
  • Ghent University Hospital
  • Erasmus Medical Center
  • University of Colorado
  • The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
  • Rouvray Psychiatric Hospital

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Abstract

Primary familial brain calcification (PFBC) is a neurological disease characterized by calcium phosphate deposits in the basal ganglia and other brain regions and has thus far been associated with SLC20A2, PDGFB or PDGFRB mutations. We identified in multiple families with PFBC mutations in XPR1, a gene encoding a retroviral receptor with phosphate export function. These mutations alter phosphate export, implicating XPR1 and phosphate homeostasis in PFBC.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)579-581
Number of pages3
JournalNature Genetics
Volume47
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 27 May 2015
Externally publishedYes

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