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Progranulin Levels in Plasma and Cerebrospinal Fluid in Granulin Mutation Carriers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pathogenic mutations in the granulin gene (GRN) are causative in 5-10% of patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), mostly leading to reduced progranulin protein (PGRN) levels. Upcoming therapeutic trials focus on enhancing PGRN levels.

Methods

Fluctuations in plasma PGRN (n = 41) and its relationship with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF, n = 32) and specific single nucleotide polymorphisms were investigated in pre- and symptomatic GRN mutation carriers and controls.

Results

Plasma PGRN levels were lower in carriers than in controls and showed a mean coefficient of variation of 5.3% in carriers over 1 week. Although plasma PGRN correlated with CSF PGRN in carriers (r = 0.54, p = 0.02), plasma only explained 29% of the variability in CSF PGRN. rs5848, rs646776 and rs1990622 genotypes only partly explained the variability of PGRN levels between subjects.

Conclusions

Plasma PGRN is relatively stable over 1 week and therefore seems suitable for treatment monitoring of PGRN-enhancing agents. Since plasma PGRN only moderately correlated with CSF PGRN, CSF sampling will additionally be needed in therapeutic trials.

SUBMITTER: Meeter LH

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5040889 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Progranulin Levels in Plasma and Cerebrospinal Fluid in Granulin Mutation Carriers.

Meeter Lieke H H LH Patzke Holger H Loewen Gordon G Dopper Elise G P EG Pijnenburg Yolande A L YA van Minkelen Rick R van Swieten John C JC

Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders extra 20160501 2

<h4>Background</h4>Pathogenic mutations in the granulin gene <i>(GRN)</i> are causative in 5-10% of patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), mostly leading to reduced progranulin protein (PGRN) levels. Upcoming therapeutic trials focus on enhancing PGRN levels.<h4>Methods</h4>Fluctuations in plasma PGRN (n = 41) and its relationship with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF, n = 32) and specific single nucleotide polymorphisms were investigated in pre- and symptomatic <i>GRN</i> mutation carriers and co ...[more]

PMID: 27703466

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Project description:Mutations in progranulin (GRN) cause heterogeneous clinical syndromes, including behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), primary progressive aphasia (PPA), corticobasal syndrome (CBS) and Alzheimer-type dementia (AD-type dementia). Human studies have shown that presymptomatic GRN carriers feature reduced connectivity in the salience network, a system targeted in bvFTD. Mice with homozygous deletion of GRN, in contrast, show thalamo-cortical hypersynchrony due to aberrant pruning of inhibitory synapses onto thalamo-cortical projection neurons. No studies have systematically explored the intrinsic connectivity networks (ICNs) targeted by the four GRN-associated clinical syndromes, or have forged clear links between human and mouse model findings. We compared 17 preclinical GRN carriers (14 "presymptomatic" clinically normal and three "prodromal" with mild cognitive symptoms) to healthy controls to assess for differences in cognitive testing and gray matter volume. Using task-free fMRI, we assessed connectivity in the salience network, a non-fluent variant primary progressive aphasia network (nfvPPA), the perirolandic network (CBS), and the default mode network (AD-type dementia). GRN carriers and controls showed similar performance on cognitive testing. Although carriers showed little evidence of brain atrophy, markedly enhanced connectivity emerged in all four networks, and thalamo-cortical hyperconnectivity stood out as a unifying feature. Voxelwise assessment of whole brain degree centrality, an unbiased graph theoretical connectivity metric, confirmed thalamic hyperconnectivity. These results show that human GRN disease and the prevailing GRN mouse model share a thalamo-cortical network hypersynchrony phenotype. Longitudinal studies will determine whether this network physiology represents a compensatory response as carriers approach symptom onset, or an early and sustained preclinical manifestation of lifelong progranulin haploinsufficiency.

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Progranulin Levels in Plasma and Cerebrospinal Fluid in Granulin Mutation Carriers.

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Progranulin Levels in Plasma and Cerebrospinal Fluid in Granulin Mutation Carriers.

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