Generalized myoclonic epilepsy with photosensitivity in juvenile dogs caused by a defective DIRAS family GTPase 1.

Wielaender, Franziska; Sarviaho, Riika; James, Fiona; Hytönen, Marjo K; Cortez, Miguel A; Kluger, Gerhard; Koskinen, Lotta L E; Arumilli, Meharji; Kornberg, Marion; Bathen-Noethen, Andrea; Tipold, Andrea; Rentmeister, Kai; Bhatti, Sofie F M; Hülsmeyer, Velia; Boettcher, Irene C; Tästensen, Carina; Flegel, Thomas; Dietschi, Elisabeth; Leeb, Tosso; Matiasek, Kaspar; ... (2017). Generalized myoclonic epilepsy with photosensitivity in juvenile dogs caused by a defective DIRAS family GTPase 1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - PNAS, 114(10), pp. 2669-2674. National Academy of Sciences NAS 10.1073/pnas.1614478114

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The clinical and electroencephalographic features of a canine generalized myoclonic epilepsy with photosensitivity and onset in young Rhodesian Ridgeback dogs (6 wk to 18 mo) are described. A fully penetrant recessive 4-bp deletion was identified in the DIRAS family GTPase 1 (DIRAS1) gene with an altered expression pattern of DIRAS1 protein in the affected brain. This neuronal DIRAS1 gene with a proposed role in cholinergic transmission provides not only a candidate for human myoclonic epilepsy but also insights into the disease etiology, while establishing a spontaneous model for future intervention studies and functional characterization.

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