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Lookup NU author(s): Mohamed Al-Hamed, Professor John SayerORCiD
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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Background: Intellectual developmental disorder with cardiac defects and dysmorphic facies (IDDCDF, MIM 618316) is a newly described disorder. It is characterized by global developmental delay, intellectual disability and speech delay, congenital cardiac malformations, and dysmorphic facial features. Biallelic pathogenic variants of TMEM94 are associated with IDDCDF. Methods and Results: In a prenatal setting, where fetal abnormalities were detected using antenatal sonography, we used trio-exome sequencing (trio-ES) in conjunction with chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) to identify two novel homozygous loss of function variants in the TMEM94 gene (c.606dupG and c.2729-2A>G) in two unrelated Saudi Arabian families. Conclusions: This study provides confirmation that TMEM94 variants may cause IDDCDF. For the first time we describe the pathogenicity of TMEM94 defects detected during the prenatal period.
Author(s): Al-Hamed MH, Alsahan N, Tulbah M, Kurdi W, Ali W, Sayer JA, Imtiaz F
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Genes
Year: 2020
Volume: 11
Issue: 9
Online publication date: 20/08/2020
Acceptance date: 13/08/2020
Date deposited: 19/10/2020
ISSN (electronic): 2073-4425
Publisher: MDPI AG
URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/genes11090967
DOI: 10.3390/genes11090967
PubMed id: 32825426
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