Publications by authors named "S Tinschert"
Background And Objectives: Heterozygous variants in RAR-related orphan receptor B () have recently been associated with susceptibility to idiopathic generalized epilepsy. However, few reports have been published so far describing pathogenic variants of this gene in patients with epilepsy and intellectual disability (ID). In this study, we aimed to delineate the epilepsy phenotype associated with pathogenic variants and to provide arguments in favor of the pathogenicity of variants.
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- Congenital microcephaly (CM) has various subtypes due to its clinical and genetic diversity, but recent studies show that the genetic factors overlap more than previously thought, making it hard to distinguish between them.
- The article discusses how the shift from viewing CM as solely a brain disorder to a condition affecting multiple organs is not fully understood, suggesting that splicing and protein expression differences may play a role.
- It emphasizes the importance of considering genetic modifiers and new variants in understanding the varied symptoms of CM, advocating for improved guidelines for diagnosis and characterization.
encodes for casein kinase II subunit beta (CK2β), the regulatory subunit of casein kinase II (CK2), which is known to mediate diverse cellular pathways. Variants in this gene have been recently identified as a cause of Poirier-Bienvenu neurodevelopmental syndrome (POBINDS), but functional evidence is sparse. Here, we report five unrelated individuals: two of them manifesting POBINDS, while three are identified to segregate a new intellectual disability-craniodigital syndrome (IDCS), distinct from POBINDS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJawad syndrome is a multiple congenital anomaly and intellectual disability syndrome with mutation in RBBP8 reported only in two families. Here, we report on two new families from Pakistan and identified a previously reported variant in RBBP8, NM_002894.3:c.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCongenital microcephaly is the clinical presentation of significantly reduced head circumference at birth. It manifests as both non-syndromic-microcephaly primary hereditary (MCPH)-and syndromic forms and shows considerable inter- and intrafamilial variability. It has been hypothesized that additional genetic variants may be responsible for this variability, but data are sparse.
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