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A Noncanonical Splice Variant in RTEL1 Responsible for Familial Pulmonary Fibrosis.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Feb 2026
White-Brown Alexandre, Marshall Aren, Wang Xueqi, Tran Minh, Keays Tara, Dyment David A
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We report a family with multiple individuals with pulmonary fibrosis of variable severity, age of onset, and clinical characteristics. Initial clinical investigations of the proband identified a splice-region variant of uncertain significance (VUS; NM_032957.4: c.3181 + 3A>C) in RTEL1. Telomere studies showed shortened telomeres (10th percentile). Family studies and functional analyses (mRNA studies and Western...
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