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Biallelic deletion in a minimal CAPN15 intron in siblings with a recognizable syndrome of congenital malformations and developmental delay.
Clinical genetics - 1 Apr 2021
Mor-Shaked Hagar, Salah Somaya, Yanovsky-Dagan Shira, Meiner Vardiella, Atawneh Osama M, Abu-Libdeh Bassam, Elpeleg Orly, Harel Tamar
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Calpainopathies constitute a heterogeneous group of disorders resulting from deficiencies in calpains, calcium-specific proteases that modulate substrates by limited proteolysis. Clinical manifestations depend on tissue-specific expression of the defective calpain and substrate specificity. CAPN15, encoding the Drosophila small optic lobes (sol) homolog, was recently found to cause various eye defects in...
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