Intronic variants in inborn errors of metabolism: Beyond the exome
Non-coding regions are areas of the genome that do not directly encode protein and were initially thought to be of little biological relevance. However, subsequent identification of pathogenic variants in these regions indicates there are exceptions to this assertion.
Ashley Hertzog +14 more
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Association of Intronic Variants of the BTBD9 Gene With Tourette Syndrome [PDF]
To test the association between Tourette syndrome (TS) and genetic variants in genomic loci MEIS1, MAP2K5/LBXCOR1, and BTBD9, for which genome-wide association studies in restless legs syndrome and periodic limb movements during sleep revealed common risk variants.Case-control association study.Movement disorder clinic in Montreal. Subjects We typed 14
Rivière, Jean-Baptiste +10 more
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Whole exome sequencing (WES) can also detect some intronic variants, which may affect splicing and gene expression, but how to use these intronic variants, and the characteristics about them has not been reported.
Li Zhang +9 more
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Detailed analysis of an enriched deep intronic ABCA4 variant in Irish Stargardt disease patients
Over 15% of probands in a large cohort of more than 1500 inherited retinal degeneration patients present with a clinical diagnosis of Stargardt disease (STGD1), a recessive form of macular dystrophy caused by biallelic variants in the ABCA4 gene ...
Laura Whelan +16 more
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An HFE Intronic Variant Promotes Misdiagnosis of Hereditary Hemochromatosis [PDF]
Accession numbers and URLs for data in this article are as follows:GenBank, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Web/Genbank (for Z92910)Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM), http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Omim (for HH [MIM 235200])
Somerville, Martin J. +4 more
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A Novel Homozygous Intronic Variant in TNNT2 Associates With Feline Cardiomyopathy [PDF]
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetic disease of the heart and the most common cause of sudden cardiac death in the young. HCM is considered a disease of the sarcomere owing to the large number of mutations in genes encoding sarcomeric proteins. The riddle lies in discovering how these mutations lead to disease.
James W. McNamara +3 more
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An Alternative Splice Variant of HIPK2 with Intron Retention Contributes to Cytokinesis [PDF]
HIPK2 is a DYRK-like kinase involved in cellular stress response pathways, development, and cell division. Two alternative splice variants of HIPK2, HIPK2-FL and HIPK2-Δe8, have been previously identified as having different protein stability but similar functional activity in the stress response.
Veronica Gatti +9 more
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Genome-wide detection of human variants that disrupt intronic branchpoints
Pre-messenger RNA splicing is initiated with the recognition of a single-nucleotide intronic branchpoint (BP) within a BP motif by spliceosome elements. Forty-eight rare variants in 43 human genes have been reported to alter splicing and cause disease by disrupting BP.
Peng Zhang +15 more
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A Deep Intronic Variant in LDLR in Familial Hypercholesterolemia.
Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is an inherited disorder characterized by high plasma LDL-C (low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol) levels. The vast majority of FH patients carry a mutation in the coding region of LDLR, APOB, or PCSK9. We set out to identify the culprit genetic defect in a large family with clinical FH, in whom no mutations were ...
Reeskamp, Laurens F. +7 more
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Deep‐intronic variants in CNGB3 cause achromatopsia by pseudoexon activation [PDF]
Our comprehensive cohort of 1100 unrelated achromatopsia (ACHM) patients comprises a considerable number of cases (~5%) harboring only a single pathogenic variant in the major ACHM gene CNGB3. We sequenced the entire CNGB3 locus in 33 of these patients to find a second variant which eventually explained the patients' phenotype.
Weisschuh, Nicole +24 more
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