Time: Monday, 12/June/2023: 11:00am - 12:45pm Session Chair: Agnes Rotig Session Chair: Daniele Ghezzi |
Location: Bologna Congress Center - Sala Europa Address: Piazza della Costituzione, 4/a, Bologna (BO), Italy |
The role of mitochondria in neuromuscular diseases
Cambridge-UK, United Kingdom
Innovative approaches for the molecular diagnosis of mitochondrial disorders
Technical University Munich Institute of Human Genetics
Specialist multidisciplinary input maximises rare disease diagnoses from whole genome sequencing
1Department of Neuromuscular Diseases, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK; 2NHS Highly Specialised Service for Rare Mitochondrial Disorders, Queen Square Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK; 3Neurogenetics Unit, Rare and Inherited Disease Laboratory, North Thames Genomic Laboratory Hub, London, UK; 4Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK; 5Department of Neurosciences, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK; 6Metabolic Unit, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK; 7National Institute for Health and Care Research Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK; 8Mitochondrial Research Group, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK; 9Genomics England, One Canada Square London, UK
Biallelic variants in MCAT in an infant with lactic acidosis, lipoylation disorder, and early death
1University Children's Hospital, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria; 2Institute of Human Genetics, University Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; 3Current address: Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; 4Department of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; 5Amalia Children’s Hospital, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Biallelic PTPMT1 variants impair cardiolipin metabolism and cause mitochondrial myopathy and developmental regression
1Department of Neuromuscular Diseases, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK; 2NHS Highly Specialised Service for Rare Mitochondrial Disorders, Queen Square Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK; 3Medical Research Council Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK; 4Izmir International Biomedicine and Genome Institute, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey; 5Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; 6Neurogenetics Unit, Rare and Inherited Disease Laboratory, North Thames Genomic Laboratory Hub, London, UK; 7Genetics and Genomic Medicine, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK; 8Neurometabolic Unit, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK; 9Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research, Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; NHS Highly Specialised Service for Rare Mitochondrial Disorders of Adults and Children, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; 10Genomics England, London, UK; 11Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center, Dokuz Eylul University Health Campus, Izmir, Turkey; 12Clinical Genetics Department, Human Genetics and Genome Research Division, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt; 13Department of Inherited Metabolic Disease, Division of Women's and Children's Services, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK; 14Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center, Izmir, Turkey; 15Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir Turkey
Heterozygous missense variants in NUTF2 (nuclear transport factor 2) gene, mapping at the OPA8 locus, cause Dominant Optic Atrophy
1IRCCS - Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, Programma di Neurogenetica - Bologna (Italy); 2Studio Oculistico d'Azeglio - Bologna (Italy); 3Department of Ophthalmology, University Vita-Salute, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele - Milano (Italy); 4Department of Genetics & Genomics, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria - Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (IIS-FJD-UAM) - Madrid (Spain); 5Center for Biomedical Network Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), ISCIII - Madrid (Spain); 6Grupo de investigación traslacional con células iPS, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Hospital 12 de Octubre (i+12), Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red (CIBERER) - Madrid (Spain); 7Université d’Angers, MitoLab team, UMR CNRS 6015 - INSERM U1083, Unité MitoVasc - Angers (France); 8Laboratory of Genetics in Ophthalmology (LGO), INSERM UMR1163, Institute of Genetic Diseases, Imagine and Paris Descartes University - Paris (France); 9Departments of Biochemistry and Genetics, University Hospital Angers - Angers (France); 10Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Center for Ophthalmology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; 11Depart. of Biomedical and NeuroMotor Sciences (DIBINEM), University of Bologna - Bologna (Italy)
Southern African paediatric patients with King Denborough syndrome are exclusively associated with an autosomal recessive STAC3 variant: is this a highly prevalent secondary mitochondrial disease in this African population?
1Human Metabolomics, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa; 2Department of Paediatrics, Steve Biko Academic Hospital, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa; 3Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom; 4Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom; 5https://www.ucl.ac.uk/genomic-medicine-neuromuscular-diseases/global-contributor-list
AK3, adenylate kinase isozyme 3, is a new gene associated with PEO and multiple mtDNA deletions
1Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Besta, Italy; 2Vall d'Hebron Research Institute, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; 3Centro Sclerosi Multipla, P.O. Binaghi, ASL Cagliari, Italy; 4Technical University of Munich, School of Medicine, Institute of Human Genetics, 81675 Munich, Germany; 5Institute of Neurogenomics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, 85764 Munich, Germany; 6Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation (DEPT), University of Milan, Italy
Guanylate kinase 1 deficiency: a novel and potentially treatable form of mitochondrial DNA depletion/deletions syndrome
1Department of Neurology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; 2Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA; 3Section of Inborn Errors of Metabolism-IBC. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics. Hospital Clinic de Barcelona-IDIBAPS, Barcelona.; 4Biomedical Network Research Centre on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona; 5Muscle Research and Mitochondrial Function Lab, Cellex - IDIBAPS. Faculty of Medicine and Health Science - University of Barcelona (UB), Barcelona.; 6Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona.; 7Vall d’Hebron Research Institute, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.; 8Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.