Background: Ion channel dysfunction in the brain can lead to impairment of neuronal membranes and generate several neurological diseases, especially neurodevelopmental disorders.
Methods: In this study, we set out to delineate the genotype and phenotype spectrums of 14 Iranian patients from 7 families with intellectual disability (ID) and/or developmental delay (DD) in whom genetic mutations were identified by next-generation sequencing (NGS) in 7 channel-encoding genes: and . Moreover, the data of 340 previously fully reported ID and/or DD cases with a mutation in any of these seven genes were combined with our patients to clarify the genotype and phenotype spectrum in this group.
Results: In total, the most common phenotypes in 354 cases with ID/DD in whom mutation in any of these 7 channel-encoding genes was identified were as follows: ID (77.4%), seizure (69.8%), DD (59.8%), behavioral abnormality (29.9%), hypotonia (21.7%), speech disorder (21.5%), gait disturbance (20.9%), and ataxia (20.3%). Electroencephalography abnormality (33.9%) was the major brain imaging abnormality.
Conclusion: The results of this study broaden the molecular spectrum of channel pathogenic variants associated with different clinical presentations in individuals with ID and/or DD.
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