Overlooked Myasthenia Gravis in an Elderly Adult

Neuropathic pain-like joint symptoms (NP) are seen in a proportion of individuals diagnosed with osteoarthritis (OA) and post total joint replacement (TJR). In this study, we performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) using NP as defined by the painDETECT questionnaire (score 412 indicating possible NP) in 613 post-TJR participants recruited from Nottinghamshire (UK). The prevalence of possible NP was 17.8%. The top four hits from the GWAS and two other biologically relevant singlenucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were replicated in individuals with OA and post TJR from an independent study in the same area (N = 908) and in individuals from the Rotterdam Study (N = 212). Three of these SNPs showed effect sizes in the same direction as in the GWAS results in both replication cohorts. The strongest association upon meta-analysis of a recessive model was for the variant allele in rs887797 mapping to the protein kinase C alpha (PRKCA) gene odds ratio (OR) possNP = 2.41 (95% CI 1.74-3.34, P = 1.29 × 10 − 7). This SNP has been found to be associated with multiple sclerosis and encodes a functional variant affecting splicing and expression of the PRKCA gene. The PRKCA gene has been associated with long-term potentiation, synaptic plasticity, chronic pain and memory in the literature, making this a biologically relevant finding.

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Overlooked Myasthenia Gravis in an Elderly Adult

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Myasthenia Gravis in the Elderly: Differential Diagnosis and Management

Myasthenia Gravis in the Elderly: Differential Diagnosis and Management

Genome-wide association scan of neuropathic pain symptoms post total joint replacement highlights a variant in the protein-kinase C gene

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