Wejdan Hakami, Farah Thabet, Amal Alhashem, Abdulaziz Alghamdi, Saad Alshahwan, Fowzan S Alkuraya, Brahim Tabarki
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Abstract
Narcolepsy with cataplexy is a complex disease with both genetic and environmental risk factors. To gain further insight into the homozygous HCRT-related narcolepsy, we present a case series of five patients from two consanguineous families, each harboring a novel homozygous variant of HCRT c.17_18del. All affected individuals exhibited severe cataplexy accompanied by narcolepsy symptoms during infancy. Additionally, cataplexy symptoms improved or disappeared in the majority of patients over time. Pathogenic variants in HCRT cause autosomal recessive narcolepsy with cataplexy. Genetic testing of the HCRT gene should be conducted in specific subgroups of narcolepsy, particularly those with early onset, familial cases, and a predominantly cataplexy phenotype.
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Neurogenetics publishes findings that contribute to a better understanding of the genetic basis of normal and abnormal function of the nervous system. Neurogenetic disorders are the main focus of the journal. Neurogenetics therefore includes findings in humans and other organisms that help understand neurological disease mechanisms and publishes papers from many different fields such as biophysics, cell biology, human genetics, neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, neurology, neuropathology, neurosurgery and psychiatry.
All papers submitted to Neurogenetics should be of sufficient immediate importance to justify urgent publication. They should present new scientific results. Data merely confirming previously published findings are not acceptable.
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