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SUBMITTER: Makrythanasis P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5839044 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Makrythanasis Periklis P Maroofian Reza R Stray-Pedersen Asbjørg A Musaev Damir D Zaki Maha S MS Mahmoud Iman G IG Selim Laila L Elbadawy Amera A Jhangiani Shalini N SN Coban Akdemir Zeynep H ZH Gambin Tomasz T Sorte Hanne S HS Heiberg Arvid A McEvoy-Venneri Jennifer J James Kiely N KN Stanley Valentina V Belandres Denice D Guipponi Michel M Santoni Federico A FA Ahangari Najmeh N Tara Fatemeh F Doosti Mohammad M Iwaszkiewicz Justyna J Zoete Vincent V Backe Paul Hoff PH Hamamy Hanan H Gleeson Joseph G JG Lupski James R JR Karimiani Ehsan Ghayoor EG Antonarakis Stylianos E SE
European journal of human genetics : EJHG 20180117 3
Kinesin proteins are critical for various cellular functions such as intracellular transport and cell division, and many members of the family have been linked to monogenic disorders and cancer. We report eight individuals with intellectual disability and microcephaly from four unrelated families with parental consanguinity. In the affected individuals of each family, homozygosity for likely pathogenic variants in KIF14 were detected; two loss-of-function (p.Asn83Ilefs*3 and p.Ser1478fs), and tw ...[more]