Complex hereditary spastic paraplegia associated with episodic visual loss caused by ACO2 variants

Hum Genome Var. 2021 Jan 26;8(1):4. doi: 10.1038/s41439-021-00136-y.

Abstract

Most patients with homozygous or compound heterozygous pathogenic ACO2 variants present with muscular hypotonia features, namely, infantile cerebellar-retinal degeneration. Recently, two studies reported rare familial cases of ACO2 variants presenting as complex hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) with broad clinical spectra. Here, we report the case of a 20-year-old Japanese woman with complex HSP caused by compound heterozygous ACO2 variants, revealing a new phenotype of episodic visual loss during febrile illness.