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A Novel Single-Nucleotide Deletion (c.1020delA) in NSUN2 Causes Intellectual Disability in an Emirati Child.
Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN - 1 Nov 2015
Komara Makanko, Al-Shamsi Aisha M, Ben-Salem Salma, Ali Bassam R, Al-Gazali Lihadh
Abstract excerpt
Intellectual disability (ID) is a major public health burden on most societies with significant socioeconomic costs. It has been shown that genetic mutations in numerous genes are responsible for a proportion of hereditary forms of ID. NOP2/Sun transfer RNA (tRNA) methyltransferase family member 2 encoded by NSUN2 gene is a highly conserved protein and has been shown to cause autosomal recessive ID type 5 (MRT5)....
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