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Eur J Hum Genet
January 2025
Institute of Bioinformatics, International Technology Park, Bangalore, 560066, India.
Mitochondrial membrane protein-associated neurodegeneration (MPAN) is a rare neurodegenerative disorder characterized by spastic paraplegia, parkinsonism and psychiatric and/or behavioral symptoms caused by variants in gene encoding chromosome-19 open reading frame-12 (C19orf12). We present here seven patients from six unrelated families with detailed clinical, radiological, and genetic investigations. Childhood-onset patients predominantly had a spastic ataxic phenotype with optic atrophy, while adult-onset patients were presented with cognitive, behavioral, and parkinsonian symptoms.
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January 2025
Department of Neuromuscular Disorders, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, Queen Square House, London, WC1N 3BG, UK.
Background: Male EBP disorder with neurologic defects (MEND syndrome) is an extremely rare disorder with a prevalence of less than 1/1,000,000 individuals worldwide. It is inherited as an X-linked recessive disorder caused by impaired sterol biosynthesis due to nonmosaic hypomorphic EBP variants. MEND syndrome is characterized by variable clinical manifestations including intellectual disability, short stature, scoliosis, digital abnormalities, cataracts, and dermatologic abnormalities.
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January 2025
NHC Key Laboratory of Human Stem Cell and Reproductive Engineering, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Purpose: This study identified novel variants of the FSIP2 and SPEF2 genes in multiple morphological abnormalities of the sperm flagella (MMAF) patients and to investigate the potential effect of variations on male infertility and assisted reproductive outcomes.
Methods: Whole-exome sequencing was performed in 106 Chinese MMAF patients. The discovered variants were evaluated in silico and confirmed by Sanger sequencing.
Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Institute for Computational Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Background: Many independent studies have found rare variants associated with AD. Current gene-based tests for rare-variants generally consider the impact of low-frequency coding variants as an independent effect from the common regulatory variants that surround them. In this work, we propose to increase the statistical power of kernel-based rare-variant association tests by accounting for the surrounding cis-regulatory variants' effects on gene expression.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: A complex, multicellular disease with genetic and immunological elements, Alzheimer's disease (AD) affects millions worldwide. There has been previous research linking AD to the missense variants ABI3-rs616338-T and PLCG2-rs72824905-G, and the altered expression of these genes has been shown to disrupt microglial function. In our understanding of AD risk and resilience, limited research has been conducted on how these variants affect microglial subtypes and states in AD.
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