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The clinical heterogeneity of these disorders may shed light on genetic interactors that modify disease onset and progression.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Case presentation<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>We describe a proband with congenital hypotonia and an atypical form of infantile-onset, biopsy-proven NCL. Pathologic and molecular work-up of this patient identified <jats:italic>CLN5<\/jats:italic> mutations as well as a mutation\u2015previously described as incompletely penetrant or a variant of unknown significance\u2015in <jats:italic>POLG1<\/jats:italic>, a nuclear gene essential for maintenance of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) copy number. The congenital presentation of this patient is far earlier than that described for either CLN5 patients or affected carriers of the <jats:italic>POLG1<\/jats:italic> variant (c.1550\u2009G\u2009&gt;\u2009T, p.Gly517Val). Assessment of relative mtDNA copy number and mitochondrial membrane potential in the proband and control subjects suggested a pathogenic effect of the <jats:italic>POLG1<\/jats:italic> change as well as a possible functional interaction with <jats:italic>CLN5<\/jats:italic> mutations.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>These findings suggest that an incompletely penetrant variant in <jats:italic>POLG1<\/jats:italic> may modify the clinical phenotype in a case of CLN5 and are consistent with emerging evidence of interactions between NCL-related genes and mitochondrial physiology.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/1471-2350-13-50","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,9,15]],"date-time":"2012-09-15T14:14:39Z","timestamp":1347718479000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["An atypical case of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis with co-inheritance of a variably penetrant POLG1mutation"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"John F","family":"Staropoli","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Winnie","family":"Xin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Rosemary","family":"Barone","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Susan L","family":"Cotman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Katherine B","family":"Sims","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2012,6,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"948_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"697","DOI":"10.1016\/j.bbamcr.2008.11.004","volume":"1793","author":"A Jalanko","year":"2009","unstructured":"Jalanko A, Braulke T: Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses. 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