Systematic cascade screening in the Danish Fabry Disease Centre: 20 years of a national single-centre experience

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  • Grigoris Effraimidis
  • Åse Krogh Rasmussen
  • Morten Dunoe
  • Flemming Wibrand
  • Puriya D.W. Yazdanfard
  • Peter Oturai
  • Vibeke A. Larsen
  • Vitor Hugo Fraga de Abreu
  • Lotte Hahn Enevoldsen
  • Tatiana Kristensen
  • Kirsten Svenstrup
  • Margrethe Bastholm Bille
  • Farah Arif

The lysosomal storage disorder Fabry disease is caused by deficient or absent activity of the GLA gene enzyme α-galactosidase A. In the present study we present the molecular and biochemical data of the Danish Fabry cohort and report 20 years’ (2001–2020) experience in cascade genetic screening at the Danish National Fabry Disease Center. The Danish Fabry cohort consisted of 26 families, 18 index patients (9 males and 9 females, no available data for 8 index-patients) and 97 family members with a pathogenic GLA variant identified by cascade genetic testing (30 males and 67 females). Fourteen patients (5 males and 9 females; mean age of death 47.0 and 64.8 years respectively) died during follow-up. The completeness of the Fabry patient identification in the country has resulted in a cohort of balanced genotypes according to gender (twice number of females compared to males), indicating that the cohort was not biased by referral, and further resulted in earlier diagnosis of the disease by a lower age at diagnosis in family members compared to index-patients (mean age at diagnosis: index-patients 42.2 vs. family members 26.0 years). Six previously unreported disease-causing variants in the GLA gene were discovered. The nationwide screening and registration of Fabry disease families provide a unique possibility to establish a complete cohort of Fabry patients and to advance current knowledge of this inherited rare lysosomal storage disorder.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummere0277767
TidsskriftPLoS ONE
Vol/bind17
Udgave nummer11
ISSN1932-6203
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2022

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Funding Information:
UFR’s research salary was supported by the Kirsten and Freddy Johansen’s Fund. The project was financially supported by Sanofi-Genzyme. Ira Hagen Pedersen (Nurse), and Casper Kok (laboratory technician) are thanked for excellent assistance. Members of the current National Fabry Team at Capital Region and Copenhagen University are all coauthors of this manuscript. Previous members are represented in referenced former publications and all are thanked for continuously supplying data.

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Copyright: © 2022 Effraimidis et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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