TY - JOUR
T1 - 1H MRS allows brain phenotype differentiation in sisters with late onset ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency (OTCD) and discordant clinical presentations
AU - Gropman, Andrea L.
AU - Seltzer, Rebecca R.
AU - Yudkoff, Marc
AU - Sawyer, Alice
AU - vanMeter, John
AU - Fricke, Stanley T.
N1 - Funding Information:
A.L.G. is supported by an NCRR career development award K12RR17613. Parts of the study were also supported by 1M01RR020359-010058. We thank Drs. Peter Barker and Brian Ross for helpful comments about the manuscript and contribution of control metabolite reference ranges. The authors would like to thank the subjects for their dedication to and participation in this study.
PY - 2008/5
Y1 - 2008/5
N2 - We used 1H MRS to evaluate brain metabolic differences in sisters with partial ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency (OTCD) who had discordant clinical symptoms and urea synthetic capabilities to assess whether a brain biomarker of partial OTCD correlated with urea synthetic ability and clinical severity. We performed single voxel 3.0T 1H MRS in two adult sisters with partial OTCD, one symptomatic and one asymptomatic, in a stable medical state and compared it to one age matched adult control, as well as data collected on an additional 13 subjects with partial OTCD and 12 controls. Data from voxels placed in frontal and parietal white matter (FWM, PWM), posterior cingulate gray matter (PCGM), and thalamus (tha), were corrected for partial volume and analyzed using "LCModel". All three subjects as well as the symptomatic mother of the two sisters, had neurocognitive testing, plasma ammonia levels, plasma amino acid, and urine organic acid analysis. Previous urea synthetic capabilities had been measured by stable isotope analysis. We found IQ scores to be inversely related to symptoms. Decreased myoinositol (mI) identified OTCD subjects, even the sister who is asymptomatic, in the posterior parietal white matter and frontal white matter. Brain metabolism is impaired in partial OTCD. Abnormal metabolism in apparently asymptomatic OTCD females may provide an explanation for neurocognitive impairments previously reported. The concentration of mI seen on 1H MRS in PWM and FWM in this family could be used to deduce clinical symptomatology and may serve as a non-invasive marker of brain liability in OTCD.
AB - We used 1H MRS to evaluate brain metabolic differences in sisters with partial ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency (OTCD) who had discordant clinical symptoms and urea synthetic capabilities to assess whether a brain biomarker of partial OTCD correlated with urea synthetic ability and clinical severity. We performed single voxel 3.0T 1H MRS in two adult sisters with partial OTCD, one symptomatic and one asymptomatic, in a stable medical state and compared it to one age matched adult control, as well as data collected on an additional 13 subjects with partial OTCD and 12 controls. Data from voxels placed in frontal and parietal white matter (FWM, PWM), posterior cingulate gray matter (PCGM), and thalamus (tha), were corrected for partial volume and analyzed using "LCModel". All three subjects as well as the symptomatic mother of the two sisters, had neurocognitive testing, plasma ammonia levels, plasma amino acid, and urine organic acid analysis. Previous urea synthetic capabilities had been measured by stable isotope analysis. We found IQ scores to be inversely related to symptoms. Decreased myoinositol (mI) identified OTCD subjects, even the sister who is asymptomatic, in the posterior parietal white matter and frontal white matter. Brain metabolism is impaired in partial OTCD. Abnormal metabolism in apparently asymptomatic OTCD females may provide an explanation for neurocognitive impairments previously reported. The concentration of mI seen on 1H MRS in PWM and FWM in this family could be used to deduce clinical symptomatology and may serve as a non-invasive marker of brain liability in OTCD.
KW - Ammonia
KW - H magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS)
KW - Myoinositol
KW - Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency (OTCD)
KW - Stable isotopes
KW - Urea cycle
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ymgme.2007.12.008
DO - 10.1016/j.ymgme.2007.12.008
M3 - Article
C2 - 18262815
AN - SCOPUS:41949097865
SN - 1096-7192
VL - 94
SP - 52
EP - 60
JO - Molecular genetics and metabolism
JF - Molecular genetics and metabolism
IS - 1
ER -