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SUBMITTER: Tanaka AJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4564988 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tanaka Akemi J AJ Cho Megan T MT Millan Francisca F Juusola Jane J Retterer Kyle K Joshi Charuta C Niyazov Dmitriy D Garnica Adolfo A Gratz Edward E Deardorff Matthew M Wilkins Alisha A Ortiz-Gonzalez Xilma X Mathews Katherine K Panzer Karin K Brilstra Eva E van Gassen Koen L I KL Volker-Touw Catharina M L CM van Binsbergen Ellen E Sobreira Nara N Hamosh Ada A McKnight Dianalee D Monaghan Kristin G KG Chung Wendy K WK
American journal of human genetics 20150820 3
Using whole-exome sequencing, we have identified in ten families 14 individuals with microcephaly, developmental delay, intellectual disability, hypotonia, spasticity, seizures, sensorineural hearing loss, cortical visual impairment, and rare autosomal-recessive predicted pathogenic variants in spermatogenesis-associated protein 5 (SPATA5). SPATA5 encodes a ubiquitously expressed member of the ATPase associated with diverse activities (AAA) protein family and is involved in mitochondrial morphog ...[more]