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Lethal neonatal respiratory failure due to biallelic variants in BBS1 and monoallelic variant in TTC21B.
Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) - 1 Feb 2023
Viehl Luke, Wegner Daniel J, Hmiel Stanley P, White Frances V, Jain Sanjay, Cole F S, Wambach Jennifer A
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BACKGROUND: Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a rare, autosomal recessive ciliopathy characterized by early onset retinal dystrophy, renal anomalies, postaxial polydactyly, and cognitive impairment with considerable phenotypic heterogeneity. BBS results from biallelic pathogenic variants in over 20 genes that encode key proteins required for the assembly or primary ciliary functions of the BBSome, a heterooctameric...
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