ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES: Using a family study design, we describe the motor and nonmotor phenotype in probands with LRRK2 G2019S mutations and family members and compare these individuals to patients with idiopathic Parkinson disease (iPD) and unrelated controls. METHODS: Probands with G2019S mutations and their first-degree relatives, subjects with iPD, and unrelated control subjects were identified from 4 movement disorders centers. All underwent neurologic examinations and tests of olfaction, color vision, anxiety, and depression inventories. RESULTS: Tremor was more often a presenting feature among 25 individuals with LRRK2-associated PD than among 84 individuals with iPD. Subjects with LRRK2-PD had better olfactory identification compared with subjects with iPD, higher Beck Depression Inventory scores, and higher error scores on Farnsworth-Munsell 100-Hue test of color discrimination. Postural or action tremor was more common among 29 nonmanifesting mutation carriers compared with 53 noncarriers within the families. Nonparkinsonian family members had higher Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale motor scores, more constipation, and worse color discrimination than controls, regardless of mutation status. CONCLUSIONS: Although tremor is a more common presenting feature of LRRK2-PD than iPD and some nonmotor features differed in degree, the phenotype is largely overlapping. Postural or action tremor may represent an early sign. Longitudinal evaluation of a large sample of nonmanifesting carriers will be required to describe any premotor phenotype that may allow early diagnosis.
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Genetic Predisposition to Disease , Heterozygote , Mutation , Parkinson Disease/genetics , Phenotype , Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases/genetics , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Anxiety/complications , Anxiety/genetics , Color Vision Defects/complications , Color Vision Defects/genetics , Depression/complications , Depression/genetics , Family , Female , Humans , Leucine-Rich Repeat Serine-Threonine Protein Kinase-2 , Male , Middle Aged , Neurologic Examination/methods , Olfaction Disorders/complications , Olfaction Disorders/genetics , Parkinson Disease/complications , Psychiatric Status Rating Scales , Tremor/complications , Tremor/geneticsABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the perception of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) regarding dyskinesia. DESIGN: Multicentre survey. SETTING: Tertiary referral centres. PATIENTS: Patients with PD participated in a survey: those not on dopaminergic medications (group I), those on dopaminergic medications without dyskinesia (group II) and those on dopaminergic medications with dyskinesia (group III). INTERVENTION: After a short standardised description and explanation of dyskinesia was provided, patients were asked about the nature and source of prior knowledge of dyskinesia. They were then asked about their perceptions of dyskinesia. Patients in group III were also asked about the duration, the severity of dyskinesia and whether their perception of this problem had changed since its appearance. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Level of concern regarding dyskinesia and whether their perception of dyskinesia would have changed their preference of treatment. Results 259 PD patients completed the survey (group I, 52; group II, 102; group III, 105). Patients with dyskinesia were significantly less concerned about dyskinesia than patients without dyskinesia and were more likely to choose dyskinesia over being parkinsonian. Patients who required fewer changes in medications because of dyskinesia were more likely to choose dyskinesia over parkinsonism. CONCLUSION: Patients with PD experiencing dyskinesia are less likely to be concerned about dyskinesia and more likely to prefer dyskinesia over parkinsonian symptoms than patients without dyskinesia.
