2022
Mutation spectrum of congenital heart disease in a consanguineous Turkish population
Dong W, Kaymakcalan H, Jin SC, Diab NS, Tanıdır C, Yalcin ASY, Ercan‐Sencicek A, Mane S, Gunel M, Lifton RP, Bilguvar K, Brueckner M. Mutation spectrum of congenital heart disease in a consanguineous Turkish population. Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine 2022, 10: e1944. PMID: 35481623, PMCID: PMC9184665, DOI: 10.1002/mgg3.1944.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsWhole-exome sequencingLaterality defectsUnique genetic architectureCongenital heart diseaseConsanguineous familyGenetic architectureCausal genesCHD genesGenome analysisHomozygous variantGenetic landscapeGenetic lesionsGenomic alterationsHeart diseaseConsanguineous populationFunction variantsRecessive variantsCHD probandsGenesType of CHDMutation spectrumStructural congenital heart diseaseVariantsCHD subjectsAdditional patients
2021
Biallelic loss-of-function variants in the splicing regulator NSRP1 cause a severe neurodevelopmental disorder with spastic cerebral palsy and epilepsy
Calame DG, Bakhtiari S, Logan R, Coban-Akdemir Z, Du H, Mitani T, Fatih JM, Hunter JV, Herman I, Pehlivan D, Jhangiani SN, Person R, Schnur RE, Jin SC, Bilguvar K, Posey JE, Koh S, Firouzabadi SG, Alehabib E, Tafakhori A, Esmkhani S, Gibbs RA, Noureldeen MM, Zaki MS, Marafi D, Darvish H, Kruer MC, Lupski JR. Biallelic loss-of-function variants in the splicing regulator NSRP1 cause a severe neurodevelopmental disorder with spastic cerebral palsy and epilepsy. Genetics In Medicine 2021, 23: 2455-2460. PMID: 34385670, PMCID: PMC8633036, DOI: 10.1038/s41436-021-01291-x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSpastic cerebral palsyC-terminal nuclear localization signalNuclear localization signalCerebral palsyPremature termination codonFunction variantsHuman neurodevelopmental disordersLocalization signalSplicing regulatorsGenomics initiativesLast exonRegulator geneTermination codonDisease traitsMutant transcriptsDevelopmental delayMouse neurodevelopmentSevere neurodevelopmental disorderMendelian disordersFunction variant allelesNeurodevelopmental disordersMolecular analysisPathogenic variationProtein 1Variable microcephaly
2020
Bi-allelic GAD1 variants cause a neonatal onset syndromic developmental and epileptic encephalopathy
Chatron N, Becker F, Morsy H, Schmidts M, Hardies K, Tuysuz B, Roselli S, Najafi M, Alkaya DU, Ashrafzadeh F, Nabil A, Omar T, Maroofian R, Karimiani EG, Hussien H, Kok F, Ramos L, Gunes N, Bilguvar K, Labalme A, Alix E, Sanlaville D, de Bellescize J, Poulat AL, Helbig I, von Spiczak S, Baulac S, Barisic N, Balling R, Caglayan H, Craiu D, Guerrini R, Klein K, Marini C, Muhle H, Rosenow F, Serratosa J, Sterbova K, Weber Y, Moslemi A, Lerche H, May P, Lesca G, Weckhuysen S, Tajsharghi H. Bi-allelic GAD1 variants cause a neonatal onset syndromic developmental and epileptic encephalopathy. Brain 2020, 143: 1447-1461. PMID: 32282878, PMCID: PMC7241960, DOI: 10.1093/brain/awaa085.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEpileptic encephalopathyJoint contracturesSeizure onsetCleft palateMonths of lifePost-neonatal periodYears of ageBi-allelic lossΓ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) metabolismEnzyme GAD67Epileptic spasmsEarly EEGEpilepsy syndromesMyoclonic seizuresEarly-onset epilepsy syndromeDisease historyPes equinovarusPatientsNovel syndromeEncephalopathyBurst attenuationIndependent consanguineous familiesFirst monthTherapeutic hopeFunction variants