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DOCK3-related neurodevelopmental syndrome: Biallelic intragenic deletion of DOCK3 in a boy with developmental delay and hypotonia.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Jan 2018
Iwata-Otsubo Aiko, Ritter Alyssa L, Weckselbatt Brooke, Ryan Nicole R, Burgess David, Conlin Laura K, Izumi Kosuke
Abstract excerpt
Dedicator of cytokinesis (DOCK) family are evolutionary conserved guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) for the Rho GTPases, Rac, and Cdc42. DOCK3 functions as a GEF for Rac1, and plays an important role in promoting neurite and axonal growth by stimulating actin dynamics and microtubule assembly pathways in the central nervous system. Here we report a boy with developmental delay, hypotonia, and ataxia due...
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