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No association of CpG SNP rs9357140 with onset age in Belgian C9orf72 repeat expansion carriers

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We investigated the impact of the recently described chromosome 6 open reading frame 10 (C6orf10)/LOC101929163 locus as age-at-onset modifier in an extended cohort of Belgian chromosome 9 open reading frame… Click to show full abstract

We investigated the impact of the recently described chromosome 6 open reading frame 10 (C6orf10)/LOC101929163 locus as age-at-onset modifier in an extended cohort of Belgian chromosome 9 open reading frame 72 (C9orf72) G4C2 repeat expansion carriers. We genotyped the tagging CpG single-nucleotide polymorphism rs9357140 in 224 confirmed C9orf72 repeat expansion carriers, 102 index cases and 122 relatives, and tested association with onset age. The C9orf72 repeat expansion cohort consisted of 131 symptomatic carriers, that is, 78 with dementia only, 13 with frontotemporal dementia (FTD)-amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and 40 ALS only, and 93 presymptomatic carriers. Cox proportional hazard regression analysis failed to identify significant association (adjusted hazard ratio = 1.15, p = 0.3). We further extended our analysis to a Belgian cohort of unrelated, mutation-negative FTD index patients (n = 230), but also found no association (adjusted hazard ratio = 0.96, p = 0.3). Overall, our findings suggest that in the Belgian cohort, the C6orf10/LOC101929163 locus cannot explain the marked variability in age at onset, and other genetic or environmental modifiers must drive the clinical heterogeneity observed among C9orf72 repeat expansion carriers.

Keywords: c9orf72 repeat; expansion carriers; age; repeat; repeat expansion

Journal Title: Neurobiology of Aging
Year Published: 2021

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