01-02-2019 | Review
A review of filamin A mutations and associated interstitial lung disease
Published in: European Journal of Pediatrics | Issue 2/2019
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What is Known:
• FLNA gene on Xq28 encodes the filamin A protein and mutation therein is associated with variable phenotypes depending on its nature of mutation.
• Loss-of-function mutation of filamin A is associated with X-linked inherited form of periventricular nodular heterotopia with or without epilepsy with most individuals affected being female. There is a recently recognised associated respiratory phenotype.
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What is New:
• The respiratory phenotype in the form of childhood interstitial lung disease is a recently recognised clinical consequence of loss-of-function FLNA mutation.
• Rare male patients with loss-of-function FLNA mutation-associated lung disease with residual protein function can survive into infancy with a severe form of the phenotype.
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