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Biallelic mutations in UGDH cause congenital microcephaly

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Biallelic mutations in UGDH cause congenital microcephaly

Li Shu
Guangyao Xie
Daoqi Mei
Rui Xu
Shixian Liu
Bo Xiao
Xing Li
Yuanyuan Xie
Xiao Mao
Hua Wang
Genes & Diseases第10卷, 第5期pp.1816-1819纸质出版 2023-09-01在线发表 2023-01-11
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Hengel et al recently reported that bi-allelic loss-of-function mutations in UDP-Glucose 6-Dehydrogenase (UGDH) caused a severe epileptic encephalopathy syndrome-Jamuar syndrome (OMIM#618792). The functional studies partially recapitulated the clinical phenotypes in the patient-derived cerebral organoid. A reduced number of proliferating neuronal progenitors in cerebral organoids was shown, which is a critical mechanism in congenital microcephaly (CM) whose patients were born with an occipitofrontal circumference (OCF) more than 2 standard deviations below average for age and sex. However, none of the reported patients in the article presented the phenotype as CM.

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