Gene analysis
After filtering the variants between the patients and a non-patient
control (the 76-year-old asymptomatic brother of the patients), we
identified a homozygous variant of the NT5E (5’-ectonucleotidase) gene,
NM_002526: c.3G>C, (p.Met1?), in the patients (Table 1).
The homozygous variant was not found in the Japanese genome variant
database (HGVD; http://www.hgvd.genome.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp) or the
in-house whole exome sequencing data. The variant was confirmed by
Sanger sequencing. Both patients were genetically diagnosed with CALJA
based on the NT5E mutation.