Genetic tests

Full name Analytes Gene panels Disease Laboratory
Hypokalemic periodic paralysis, type 1 (CACNA1S gene hot spot mutations) CACNA1S Hypokalemic periodic paralysis Centrum Medische Genetica - UZ Brussel VUB
Periodic paralysis (myotonia) / Paramyotonia congenita (SCN4A gene) SCN4A Hyperkalemic periodic paralysis, Hypokalemic periodic paralysis Centrum Medische Genetica - UZ Brussel VUB
Creatine deficiency by Guanidinoacetate methyltransferase deficiency (2 genes) GAMT, GATM Guanidinoacetate methyltransferase deficiency, L-Arginine:glycine amidinotransferase deficiency Centre de Génétique Humaine - CHU Sart-Tilman
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (GGGGCC repeat expansion in the C9ORF72 gene) C9ORF72 Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Frontotemporal dementia with motor neuron disease, Behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia, Huntington disease-like syndrome due to C9ORF72 expansions Centrum Menselijke Erfelijkheid - KUL
Alzheimer disease (gene panel) APP, PSEN1, PSEN2, APOE Early-onset autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease, Behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia, Semantic dementia, Progressive non-fluent aphasia Centre de Génétique Humaine - Erasme ULB
Congenital generalized lipodystrophy type 2 / Spastic paraplegia-17 / Hereditary motor neuronopathy type VA / Silver spastic paraplegia syndrome (hot spot mutation - p.Asn88Ser; p.Ser90; p.Arg96His) BSCL2 Autosomal dominant spastic paraplegia type 17, Severe neurodegenerative syndrome with lipodystrophy, Distal hereditary motor neuropathy type 5, Congenital generalized lipodystrophy Centre de Génétique-Institut de Pathologie et de Génétique (IPG)