Purpose: Biallelic INPP4A variants have recently been associated with severe neurodevelopmental disease in single-case reports. Here, we expand and elucidate the clinical-genetic spectrum and provide a pathomechanistic explanation for genotype-phenotype correlations.
Methods: Clinical and genomic investigations of 30 individuals were undertaken alongside molecular and in silico modelling and translation reinitiation studies.
Background: Genetic variants that severely alter protein products (e.g. nonsense, frameshift) are often associated with disease.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFDue to the majority of currently available genome data deriving from individuals of European ancestry, the clinical interpretation of genomic variants in individuals from diverse ethnic backgrounds remains a major diagnostic challenge. Here, we investigated the genetic cause of a complex neurodevelopmental phenotype in two Palestinian siblings. Whole exome sequencing identified a homozygous missense TECPR2 variant (Chr14(GRCh38):g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Classification of rare missense variants remains an ongoing challenge in genomic medicine. Evidence of pathogenicity is often sparse, and decisions about how to weigh different evidence classes may be subjective. We used a Bayesian variant classification framework to investigate the performance of variant co-localisation, missense constraint, and aggregating data across paralogous protein domains ("meta-domains").
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