Transthyretin-related hereditary amyloidosis

Transthyretin-related hereditary amyloidosis
Transthyretin-related hereditary amyloidosis
Classification and external resources
OMIM 105210
eMedicine article/335301

Familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP), also called transthyretin-related hereditary amyloidosis, transthyretin amyloidosis or Corino de Andrade's disease,[1] is an autosomal dominant[2] neurodegenerative disease. It is a form of paramyloidosis, and was first identified and described by Portuguese neurologist Mário Corino da Costa Andrade, in the 1950s.[3] It is a fatal and incurable disease.

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Characteristics

Usually manifesting itself between 20 and 40 years of age, it is characterized by pain, paresthesia, muscular weakness and autonomic dysfunction. In its terminal state, the kidneys and the heart are affected. FAP is characterized by the systemic deposition of amyloidogenic variants of the transthyretin protein, especially in the peripheral nervous system, causing a progressive sensory and motorial polyneuropathy.

Cause and genetics

Familial amyloid polyneuropathy has an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance.

FAP is caused by a mutation of the TTR gene, located on human chromosome 18q12.1-11.2.[4] A replacement of valine by methionine at position 30 (TTR V30M) is the mutation most commonly found in FAP.[1] The variant TTR is mostly produced by the liver.[citation needed]

FAP is inherited in an autosomal dominant manner.[2] This means that the defective gene responsible for the disorder is located on an autosome (chromosome 18 is an autosome), and only one copy of the defective gene is sufficient to cause the disorder, when inherited from a parent who has the disorder.

Prognosis

In the absence of a liver transplant, FAP is invariably fatal.

Epidemiology

This disease is endemic in Portuguese locations Póvoa de Varzim and Vila do Conde (Caxinas), with more than 1000 affected people, coming from about 500 families, where 70% of the people develop the illness. It was brought by Vikings from Scandinavia during the Middle Age. In northern Sweden, more specifically Piteå, Skellefteå and Umeå, 1.5% of the population has the mutated gene. There are many other populations in the world who exhibit the illness after having developed it independently.

Experimental treatments

The drug tafamidis[5] has completed a phase II/III clinical trial[6] and preliminary results suggest it slows progression of the disease.[7]

Animal models

Combined Doxycycline and TUDCA treatment (in human tolerable doses) significantly lowered fibrillar Transthyretin (TTR) amyloid deposition in transgenic TTR mice models. The authors propose this treatment in FAP, particularly in the early stages of disease.[8]

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