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MFSD8 ‐Related CLN7 Disease with Adult‐Onset Cerebellar Ataxia: A Five‐Patient Case Series

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: BACKGROUND: Adult-onset recessive cerebellar ataxias comprise a heterogeneous group of disorders. OBJECTIVES: To describe a founder MFSD8 variant in adult-onset cerebellar ataxia. METHODS: We describe three unrelated Indian patients and one sibling pair (n = 5; median age 31 years) who exhibited progressive gait ataxia, limb dysmetria, titubation, gaze-evoked nystagmus, hypermetric saccades, and brisk reflexes without seizures, cognitive decline, visual impairment, or autonomic dysfunction. Brain MRI revealed moderate cerebellar atrophy. RESULTS: They were all homozygous for MFSD8 c.935T>C(p.Ile312Thr) presenting with pure cerebellar syndrome in the third decade. This ultra-rare p.Ile312Thr variant was predicted as deleterious by in silico tools and absent in homozygous state in population databases. Runs of homozygosity indicated a shared ~1.3-12Mbp haplotype with a common ancestor ~620 years ago. CONCLUSIONS: These findings expand MFSD8-related CLN7 disease to include adult-onset isolated ataxia and support inclusion of MFSD8 in adult ataxia gene panels, particularly in South Asian populations.

Source: Movement Disorders Clinical Practice

DOI: 10.1002/mdc3.70383