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Table 16 Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus

From: The genetic basis of hydrocephalus: genes, pathways, mechanisms, and global impact

Citation

Title

Author affiliation

Case #

Ancestry

Study design

CNS phenotype

Non-CNS phenotype

Type of hydrocephalus

Genetic Methodology

Genetic Analysis

Inheritance

Genetic Findings

Kato et al., 2011 [113]

Segmental copy number loss of SFMBT1 gene in elderly individuals with ventriculomegaly: a community-based study

Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Japan

8 Subjects, 10 Controls

Japanese

Case series

Isolated hydrocephalus

 

Communicating

WGS, cytogenetics

CNV, aCGH

-

3p21.1 (12 kb deletion within intron 2 of SFMBT1)

Morimoto et al., 2019 [382]

Nonsense mutation in CFAP43 causes normal-pressure hydrocephalus with ciliary abnormalities

Kagawa University, Takamatsu, Japan

5 Subjects, Controls used

Japanese

Case study

Isolated hydrocephalus

Chronic sinusitis, pneumonia

Communicating

WES

Sanger sequencing

Heterozygous

10q25.1 (c.C105893468T in CFAP43)

Sato et al., 2016 [115]

A Segmental Copy Number Loss of the SFMBT1 Gene Is a Genetic Risk for Shunt-Responsive, Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (iNPH): A Case–Control Study

Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan

50 Subjects, 110 Controls

Japanese

Case–Control

Isolated hydrocephalus

 

Communicating

TGS

CNV

De novo

3p21.1 (deletion in intron 2 of the SFMBT1)

Zhang et al., 2010 [383]

Genome-wide linkage scan maps ETINPH gene to chromosome 19q12-13.31

Center for Neurosciences, Texas Tech University Health Science Center, El Paso, TX, USA

26 Subjects

-

Case series

Essential tremor

 

Communicating

Genotyping

SNP, linkage analysis

AD

ETINPH locus localized to chromosome 19q12–13.31

  1. Array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH). Autosomal Dominant (AD). Copy number variant (CNV). Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP). Targeted genome sequencing (TGS). Whole exome sequencing (WES). Whole genome sequencing (WGS)