Machine learning-based identification and characterization of 15 novel pathogenic SUOX missense mutations.

Isolated sulfite oxidase deficiency (ISOD) is a rare hereditary metabolic disease caused by absence of functional sulfite oxidase (SO) due to mutations of the SUOX gene. SO oxidizes toxic sulfite and sulfite accumulation is associated with neurological disorders, progressive brain atrophy and early death. Similarities of these neurological symptoms to abundant diseases like neonatal encephalopathy underlines the raising need to increase the awareness for ISOD.