PHKA2 variants expand the phenotype of phosphorylase B kinase deficiency to include patients with ketotic hypoglycemia only. Issue 10 (12th June 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Benner, Anne; Alhaidan, Yazeid; Lines, Matthew A.; Brusgaard, Klaus; De Leon, Diva D.; Sparkes, Rebecca; Frederiksen, Anja L.; Christesen, Henrik T.
• Is Part Of: American journal of medical genetics. Volume 185:Issue 10(2021)
• Page Start: 2959
• Page End: 2975
• Publication Date: 2021-06-12
• Subjects: glycogen storage disease -- inborn errors of metabolism -- ketotic hypoglycemia -- next‐generation sequencing -- whole‐exome sequencing; Medical genetics -- Periodicals; 616.14205
• DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.62383
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1552-4825

Abstract

Abstract: Idiopathic ketotic hypoglycemia (IKH) is a diagnosis of exclusion with glycogen storage diseases (GSDs) as a differential diagnosis. GSD IXa presents with ketotic hypoglycemia (KH), hepatomegaly, and growth retardation due to PHKA2 variants. In our multicenter study, 12 children from eight families were diagnosed or suspected of IKH. Whole‐exome sequencing or targeted next‐generation sequencing panels were performed. We identified two known and three novel (likely) pathogenic PHKA2 variants, such as p.(Pro869Arg), p.(Pro498Leu), p.(Arg2Gly), p.(Arg860Trp), and p.(Val135Leu), respectively. Erythrocyte phosphorylase kinase activity in three patients with the novel variants p.(Arg2Gly) and p.(Arg860Trp) were 15%–20% of mean normal. One patient had short stature and intermittent mildly elevated aspartate aminotransferase, but no hepatomegaly. Family testing identified two asymptomatic children and 18 adult family members with one of the PHKA2 variants, of which 10 had KH symptoms in childhood and 8 had mild symptoms in adulthood. Our study expands the classical GSD IXa phenotype of PHKA2 missense variants to a continuum from seemingly asymptomatic carriers, over KH‐only with phosphorylase B kinase deficiency, to more or less complete classical GSD IXa. In contrast to typical IKH, which is confined to young children, KH may persist into adulthood in the KH‐only phenotype of PHKA2 .