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SUBMITTER: Stuart HM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3567269 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stuart Helen M HM Roberts Neil A NA Burgu Berk B Daly Sarah B SB Urquhart Jill E JE Bhaskar Sanjeev S Dickerson Jonathan E JE Mermerkaya Murat M Silay Mesrur Selcuk MS Lewis Malcolm A MA Olondriz M Beatriz Orive MB Gener Blanca B Beetz Christian C Varga Rita E RE Gülpınar Omer O Süer Evren E Soygür Tarkan T Ozçakar Zeynep B ZB Yalçınkaya Fatoş F Kavaz Aslı A Bulum Burcu B Gücük Adnan A Yue Wyatt W WW Erdogan Firat F Berry Andrew A Hanley Neil A NA McKenzie Edward A EA Hilton Emma N EN Woolf Adrian S AS Newman William G WG
American journal of human genetics 20130111 2
Urofacial syndrome (UFS) (or Ochoa syndrome) is an autosomal-recessive disease characterized by congenital urinary bladder dysfunction, associated with a significant risk of kidney failure, and an abnormal facial expression upon smiling, laughing, and crying. We report that a subset of UFS-affected individuals have biallelic mutations in LRIG2, encoding leucine-rich repeats and immunoglobulin-like domains 2, a protein implicated in neural cell signaling and tumorigenesis. Importantly, we have de ...[more]