Elsa Leitão, Christopher Schröder, Ilaria Parenti, Carine Dalle, Agnès Rastetter, Theresa Kühnel, Alma Kuechler, Sabine Kaya, Bénédicte Gérard, Elise Schaefer, Caroline Nava, Nathalie Drouot, Camille Engel, Juliette Piard, Bénédicte Duban-Bedu, Laurent Villard, Alexander P A Stegmann, Els K Vanhoutte, Job A J Verdonschot, Frank J Kaiser, Frédéric Tran Mau-Them, Marcello Scala, Pasquale Striano, Suzanna G M Frints, Emanuela Argilli, Elliott H Sherr, Fikret Elder, Julien Buratti, Boris Keren, Cyril Mignot, Delphine Héron, Jean-Louis Mandel, Jozef Gecz, Vera M Kalscheuer, Bernhard Horsthemke, Amélie Piton, Christel Depienne
Disease gene discovery on chromosome (chr) X is challenging owing to its unique modes of inheritance. We undertook a systematic analysis of human chrX genes. We observe a higher proportion of disorder-associated genes and an enrichment of genes involved in cognition, language, and seizures on chrX compared to autosomes. We analyze gene constraints, exon and promoter conservation, expression, and paralogues, and report 127 genes sharing one or more attributes with known chrX disorder genes. Using machine learning classifiers trained to distinguish disease-associated from dispensable genes, we classify 247 genes, including 115 of the 127, as having high probability of being disease-associated...
November 2, 2022: Nature Communications