Sleep aspects on video-polysomnography in LRRK2 mutation carriers.

BACKGROUND

Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder and sleepiness precede or accompany idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD), but their presence in subjects with leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 mutations is unknown.

METHODS

Ten patients with leucine-rich repeat kinase 2-associated PD, four healthy leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 mutation carriers, 20 patients with idiopathic PD, and 12 healthy controls underwent clinical assessments and a nighttime video-polysomnography.

RESULTS

No sleep changes, no rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder, or rapid eye movement sleep without atonia was found in the 14 subjects with leucine-rich repeat kinase 2mutations compared with controls, whereas 41% of patients with idiopathic PD had rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder. Eventually, 20% of patients with leucine-rich repeat kinase 2-associated PD had abnormal periodic leg movements, a frequency similar to the idiopathic PD group frequency.

CONCLUSIONS

The sleep phenotype in leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 mutations parallels that of idiopathic PD, except for absent rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder here in the presymptomatic and symptomatic stages.