SAT-404 Neonatal Hypocalcemic Seizures in Offspring of a Mother with Familial Hypocalciuric Hypercalcemia Type 1 (FHH1)

Abstract

Background: Familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia type 1 (FHH1) is caused by loss-of-function mutations of the calcium-sensing receptor (CaSR), and considered to be a benign condition associated with mild-to-moderate hypercalcemia (1). However, the children of parents with FHH1 can develop a variety of disorders of calcium homeostasis in infancy. Objective: To further characterise the range of calcitropic phenotypes in the children of a mother with FHH1. Methods: We assessed a three generation FHH kindred by clinical, biochemical and mutational analysis following informed consent. Results: The kindred comprised a hypercalcemic male, his daughter who had hypercalcemia and hypocalciuria, and her four children, of whom two had asymptomatic hypercalcemia, one was normocalcemic, and one suffered from transient hypocalcemic seizures during infancy. The hypocalcemic infant had a serum calcium of 1.57 mmol/L (normal, 2.0-2.8) and PTH of 2.2 pmol/L (normal, 1.0-9.3) as a consequence of maternal hypercalcemia, and required treatment with I-V calcium gluconate infusions. Mutational analysis identified a novel heterozygous p.Ser448Pro CaSR variant in the hypercalcemic family members, but not in the children with hypocalcemia or normocalcemia. Three-dimensional modelling using a reported crystal structure of the dimeric CaSR showed the mutated Ser448 residue to be located in the CaSR extracellular domain, and predicted the p.Ser448Pro variant to disrupt a hydrogen bond interaction across the extracellular CaSR dimer interface. The variant Pro448 CaSR, when expressed in HEK293 cells, was shown to significantly impair CaSR-mediated intracellular calcium mobilisation and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) responses following stimulation with extracellular calcium, thereby demonstrating it to represent a loss-of-function mutation. Conclusion: These studies have identified a novel loss-of-function CaSR mutation which caused asymptomatic hypercalcemia in a mother and her children who had inherited the mutation. However, one child who did not inherit the mutation developed transient neonatal hypocalcemic seizures as a consequence of maternal hypercalcemia. These findings highlight the importance of assessing serum calcium and undertaking CaSR mutational analysis in the newborn offspring of a mother with FHH1. Reference: (1) Hannan FM, Kallay E, Chang W, Brandi ML, Thakker RV. The calcium-sensing receptor in physiology and in calcitropic and noncalcitropic diseases. Nat Rev Endocrinol. 2018; 15(1): 33-51.