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SUBMITTER: Yazdani S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7138921 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yazdani Shahram S Badjatiya Anish A Dorrani Naghmeh N Lee Hane H Grody Wayne W WW Nelson Stanley F SF Dipple Katrina M KM
Molecular genetics and metabolism reports 20200406
We report two brothers with severe global cognitive and motor delay, cortical visual impairment and sick sinus syndrome who were born to consanguineous parents. Standard genetic evaluations did not reveal the cause of their mental retardation. As expected, chromosomal microarray (CMA) revealed extensive regions of homozygosity. Exome sequencing revealed that both affected boys were homozygous for a nonsense mutation in the G-protein β5 (<i>GNB5</i>) gene (NM_016194.3:c.1032C > G; Tyr344Ter), and ...[more]