Anne Hebert, Annet Simons ... Caspar I van der Made
Systematic assessment of de novo variants in patients with sporadic inborn errors of immunity led to the identification of promising candidate variants in known and novel immune genes, supporting its implementation in the routine diagnostic evaluation of these patients.
Andrew T Timberlake, Jungmin Choi ... Richard P Lifton
Epistatic interactions of rare loss of function mutations in SMAD6 and a common variant modifier near BMP2 are the most common cause of midline craniosynostosis in humans.
Yi Bessie Liu, Ambika Tewari ... Kathleen J Sweadner
A mouse with a defined mutation in an extracellular matrix protein that is expressed in selected neurons sheds light on circuit abnormalities producing transient hyperkinetic movements.
Skin cells from a patient with retinitis pigmentosa have been used to generate induced pluripotent stem cells, which could potentially form the basis of new treatments for this disease.
Ute I Scholl, Gabriel Stölting ... Richard P Lifton
A novel Mendelian disease featuring early-onset hypertension is caused by a recurrent gain of function mutation in CACNA1H, which encodes the voltage-gated calcium channel Cav3.2.
Bilallelic mutations of FANCM, a DNA-damage response gene whose heterozygous mutations predispose to breast cancer, are involved in a familial case of Primary Ovarian Insufficiency establishing a link between infertility and cancer.
Emily R Ebel, Frans A Kuypers ... Elizabeth S Egan
Human red blood cells from healthy donors display marked biophysical and genetic variation that impacts the growth of Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites, outside of known disease alleles.