Abstract

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Abstract: Joubert syndrome is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous ciliopathy characterized by a typical cerebellar and brainstem malformation (the "molar tooth sign"), and variable multiorgan involvement. To date, 24 genes have been found mutated in Joubert syndrome, of which 13 also cause Meckel syndrome, a lethal ciliopathy with kidney, liver and skeletal involvement. Here we describe four patients with mild Joubert phenotypes who carry pathogenic mutations in either MKS1 or B9D1 , two genes previously implicated only in Meckel syndrome.

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Title
Mutations in B9D1 and MKS1 cause mild Joubert syndrome: expanding the genetic overlap with the lethal ciliopathy Meckel syndrome
Author
Romani, Marta; Micalizzi, Alessia; Kraoua, Ichraf; Dotti, Maria Teresa; Cavallin, Mara; Sztriha, László; Ruta, Rosario; Mancini, Francesca; Mazza, Tommaso; Castellana, Stefano; Hanene, Benrhouma; Carluccio, Maria Alessandra; Darra, Francesca; Máté, Adrienn; Zimmermann, Alíz; Gouider-Khouja, Neziha; Valente, Enza Maria
Pages
72
Publication year
2014
Publication date
2014
Publisher
BioMed Central
e-ISSN
17501172
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1750-1172-9-72
ProQuest document ID
1525080363
Copyright
© 2014 Romani et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.