De novo variants in CAMTA1 cause a syndrome variably associated with spasticity, ataxia, and intellectual disability.

Previously, intragenic CAMTA1 copy number variants (CNVs) have been shown to cause non-progressive, congenital ataxia with or without intellectual disability (OMIM#614756). However, ataxia, intellectual disability, and dysmorphic features were all incompletely penetrant, even within families. Here, we describe four patients with de novo nonsense, frameshift or missense CAMTA1 variants.

A zebrafish model to study small-fiber neuropathy reveals a potential role for GDAP1.

Mutations in genes involved in mitochondrial dynamics (fusion and fission) have been implicated in many peripheral neuropathies. We hypothesized that defects in these genes could result in a phenotype resembling features of small-fiber neuropathy (SFN). This was investigated in zebrafish by knocking down two genes involved in mitochondrial dynamics gdap1 (possibly fission and motility) and opa1 (fusion) using established morpholinos.