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Neurodevelopmental disorder in an Egyptian family with a biallelic ALKBH8 variant.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Apr 2021
Saad Ahmed K, Marafi Dana, Mitani Tadahiro, Du Haowei, Rafat Karima, Fatih Jawid M, Jhangiani Shalini N, Coban-Akdemir Zeynep, Gibbs Richard A, Pehlivan Davut, Hunter Jill V, Posey Jennifer E, Zaki Maha S, Lupski James R
Abstract excerpt
Alkylated DNA repair protein AlkB homolog 8 (ALKBH8) is a member of the AlkB family of dioxygenases. ALKBH8 is a methyltransferase of the highly variable wobble nucleoside position in the anticodon loop of tRNA and thus plays a critical role in tRNA modification by preserving codon recognition and preventing errors in amino acid incorporation during translation. Moreover, its activity catalyzes uridine...
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