Purpose: FINCA disease (Fibrosis, Neurodegeneration and Cerebral Angiomatosis, OMIM 618278) is an infantile-onset neurodevelopmental and multiorgan disease. Since our initial report in 2018, additional patients have been described. FINCA is the first human disease caused by recessive variants in the highly conserved gene.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiallelic loss-of-function variants in the SMG9 gene, encoding a regulatory subunit of the mRNA nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) machinery, are reported to cause heart and brain malformation syndrome. Here we report five patients from three unrelated families with intellectual disability (ID) and a novel pathogenic SMG9 c.551 T > C p.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntellectual disability (ID), megalencephaly, frontal predominant pachygyria, and seizures, previously called "thin" lissencephaly, are reported to be caused by recessive variants in CRADD. Among five families of different ethnicities identified, one homozygous missense variant, c.509G>A p.
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