Evidence for altered neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration in Wolfram syndrome using longitudinal morphometry.

ABSTRACT: Wolfram syndrome is a rare disease caused by mutations in the WFS1 gene leading to symptoms in early to mid-childhood. Brain structural abnormalities are present even in young children, but it is not known when these abnormalities arise. Such information is critical in determining optimal outcome measures for clinical trials and in understanding the aberrant neurobiological processes in Wolfram syndrome. Using voxel-wise and regional longitudinal analyses, we compared brain volumes in Wolfram patients (n = 29; ages 5-25 at baseline; mean follow-up = 3.6 years), to age and sex-equivalent controls (n = 52; ages 6-26 at baseline; mean follow-up = 2.0 years). Between groups, white and gray matter volumes were affected differentially during development. Controls had uniformly increasing volume

SUBMITTER: Lugar HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6461605 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature