Davor Lessel, Christina Gehbauer, Nuria C Bramswig, Caroline Schluth-Bolard, Sathish Venkataramanappa, Koen L I van Gassen, Maja Hempel, Tobias B Haack, Anja Baresic, Casie A Genetti, Mariana F A Funari, Ivana Lessel, Leonie Kuhlmann, Ruth Simon, Pentao Liu, Jonas Denecke, Alma Kuechler, Ineke de Kruijff, Moneef Shoukier, Monkol Lek, Thomas Mullen, Hermann-Josef Lüdecke, Antonio M Lerario, Robin Kobbe, Thorsten Krieger, Benedicte Demeer, Marine Lebrun, Boris Keren, Caroline Nava, Julien Buratti, Alexandra Afenjar, Marwan Shinawi, Maria J Guillen Sacoto, Julie Gauthier, Fadi F Hamdan, Anne-Marie Laberge, Philippe M Campeau, Raymond J Louie, Sara S Cathey, Immo Prinz, Alexander A L Jorge, Paulien A Terhal, Boris Lenhard, Dagmar Wieczorek, Tim M Strom, Pankaj B Agrawal, Stefan Britsch, Eva Tolosa, Christian Kubisch
The transcription factor BCL11B is essential for development of the nervous and the immune system, and Bcl11b deficiency results in structural brain defects, reduced learning capacity, and impaired immune cell development in mice. However, the precise role of BCL11B in humans is largely unexplored, except for a single patient with a BCL11B missense mutation, affected by multisystem anomalies and profound immune deficiency. Using massively parallel sequencing we identified 13 patients bearing heterozygous germline alterations in BCL11B...
August 1, 2018: Brain