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A PIGH mutation leading to GPI deficiency is associated with developmental delay and autism.
Human mutation - 1 Jun 2018
Nguyen Thi Tuyet Mai, Mahida Sonal, Smith-Hicks Constance, Campeau Philippe M
Abstract excerpt
We identified an individual with a homozygous missense variant (p.Ser103Pro) in a conserved residue of the glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) biosynthesis gene PIGH. This gene encodes an essential component of the phosphatidylinositol N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase complex, in the first step of the biosynthesis of GPI, a glycolipid anchor added to more than one hundred human proteins, several being critical for...
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