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Unveiling Secondary Mutations in Blended Phenotypes: Dual ERCC4 and OTOA Pathogenic Variants Through WES Analysis.
International journal of molecular sciences - 16 Dec 2024
Failla Pinella, Saccuzzo Lucia, Galesi Ornella, Greco Donatella, Barresi Vincenza, Amata Silvestra, Romano Corrado, Fichera Marco
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This study describes two siblings from consanguineous parents who exhibit intellectual disability, microcephaly, photosensitivity, bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, numerous freckles, and other clinical features that suggest a potential disruption of the nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway. Whole exome sequencing (WES) identified a novel homozygous missense variant in the ERCC4 gene, which was predicted...
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