Neurocognitive patterns across genetic levels in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia: a multiple single cases study

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2022-12-06Authors
Santamaria Garcia, HernandoOgonowsky, Natalia
Baez, Sandra
Palacio, Nicole
Reyes Gavilan, Pablo Alexander
Schulte, Michael
López, Andrea
Matallana, Diana
Ibanez, Agustín
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Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Facultad de Medicina. Instituto de Envejecimiento
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1471-2377
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Abstract
Background:
Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) has been related to different genetic factors. Identifying multimodal phenotypic heterogeneity triggered by various genetic influences is critical for improving diagnosis, prognosis, and treatments. However, the specific impact of different genetic levels (mutations vs. risk variants vs. sporadic presentations) on clinical and neurocognitive phenotypes is not entirely understood, specially in patites from underrepresented regions such as Colombia.
Methods:
Here, in a multiple single cases study, we provide systematic comparisons regarding cognitive, neuropsychiatric, brain atrophy, and gene expression-atrophy overlap in a novel cohort of FTD patients (n = 42) from Colombia with different genetic levels, including patients with known genetic influences (G-FTD) such as those with genetic mutations (GR1) in particular genes (MAPT, TARDBP, and TREM2); patients with risk variants (GR2) in genes associated with FTD (tau Haplotypes H1 and H2 and APOE variants including ε2, ε3, ε4); and sporadic FTD patients (S-FTD (GR3)).
Results:
We found that patients from GR1 and GR2 exhibited earlier disease onset, pervasive cognitive impairments (cognitive screening, executive functioning, ToM), and increased brain atrophy (prefrontal areas, cingulated cortices, basal ganglia, and inferior temporal gyrus) than S-FTD patients (GR3). No differences in disease duration were observed across groups. Additionally, significant neuropsychiatric symptoms were observed in the GR1. The GR1 also presented more clinical and neurocognitive compromise than GR2 patients; these groups, however, did not display differences in disease onset or duration. APOE and tau patients showed more neuropsychiatric symptoms and primary atrophy in parietal and temporal cortices than GR1 patients. The gene-atrophy overlap analysis revealed atrophy in regions with specific genetic overexpression in all G-FTD patients. A differential family presentation did not explain the results.
Conclusions:
Our results support the existence of genetic levels affecting the clinical, neurocognitive, and, to a lesser extent, neuropsychiatric presentation of bvFTD in the present underrepresented sample. These results support tailored assessments characterization based on the parallels of genetic levels and neurocognitive profiles in bvFTD.
Keywords
MAPTTARDBP
TREM2
Tau haplotypes
APOE variants
bvFTD
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Clinic and neurocognitive profles
Gene-atrophy overlap
Frontotemporal dementia
Mutations
Genetics
Structural neuroimaging
Cognition
Gene-atrophy association
Spatial coverage (cities)
Bogotá (Colombia)Spatial coverage
ColombiaCommunity
Pacientes con Demencia frontotemporalLink to the resource
https://bmcneurol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12883-022-02954-1Source
BMC Neurology; Volumen 22 , Páginas 1 - 23 (2022)
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