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- Title
De novo nonsense mutations in ASXL1 cause Bohring-Opitz syndrome.
- Authors
Hoischen, Alexander; van Bon, Bregje W M; Rodríguez-Santiago, Benjamín; Gilissen, Christian; Vissers, Lisenka E L M; de Vries, Petra; Janssen, Irene; van Lier, Bart; Hastings, Rob; Smithson, Sarah F; Newbury-Ecob, Ruth; Kjaergaard, Susanne; Goodship, Judith; McGowan, Ruth; Bartholdi, Deborah; Rauch, Anita; Peippo, Maarit; Cobben, Jan M; Wieczorek, Dagmar; Gillessen-Kaesbach, Gabriele; Veltman, Joris A; Brunner, Han G; de Vries, Bert B B A
- Abstract
Bohring-Opitz syndrome is characterized by severe intellectual disability, distinctive facial features and multiple congenital malformations. We sequenced the exomes of three individuals with Bohring-Opitz syndrome and in each identified heterozygous de novo nonsense mutations in ASXL1, which is required for maintenance of both activation and silencing of Hox genes. In total, 7 out of 13 subjects with a Bohring-Opitz phenotype had de novo ASXL1 mutations, suggesting that the syndrome is genetically heterogeneous.
- Publication
Nature genetics, 2011, Vol 43, Issue 8, p729
- ISSN
1546-1718
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/ng.868