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Recessive, Deleterious Variants in SMG8 Expand the Role of Nonsense-Mediated Decay in Developmental Disorders in Humans.
American journal of human genetics - 3 Dec 2020
Alzahrani Fatema, Kuwahara Hiroyuki, Long Yongkang, Al-Owain Mohammed, Tohary Mohamed, AlSayed Moeenaldeen, Mahnashi Mohammed, Fathi Lana, Alnemer Maha, Al-Hamed Mohamed H, Lemire Gabrielle, Boycott Kym M, Hashem Mais, Han Wenkai, Al-Maawali Almundher, Al Mahrizi Feisal, Al-Thihli Khalid, Gao Xin, Alkuraya Fowzan S
Abstract excerpt
We have previously described a heart-, eye-, and brain-malformation syndrome caused by homozygous loss-of-function variants in SMG9, which encodes a critical component of the nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) machinery. Here, we describe four consanguineous families with four different likely deleterious homozygous variants in SMG8, encoding a binding partner of SMG9. The observed phenotype greatly resembles that...
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