Melanie Brugger, Antonella Lauri, Yan Zhen, Laura L Gramegna, Benedikt Zott, Nikolina Sekulić, Giulia Fasano, Robert Kopajtich, Viviana Cordeddu, Francesca Clementina Radio, Cecilia Mancini, Simone Pizzi, Graziamaria Paradisi, Ginevra Zanni, Gessica Vasco, Rosalba Carrozzo, Flavia Palombo, Caterina Tonon, Raffaele Lodi, Chiara La Morgia, Maria Arelin, Cristiane Blechschmidt, Tom Finck, Vigdis Sørensen, Kornelia Kreiser, Gertrud Strobl-Wildemann, Hagit Daum, Rachel Michaelson-Cohen, Lucia Ziccardi, Giuseppe Zampino, Holger Prokisch, Rami Abou Jamra, Claudio Fiorini, Thomas Arzberger, Juliane Winkelmann, Leonardo Caporali, Valerio Carelli, Harald Stenmark, Marco Tartaglia, Matias Wagner
The endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) machinery is essential for membrane remodeling and autophagy and it comprises three multi-subunit complexes (ESCRT I-III). We report nine individuals from six families presenting with a spectrum of neurodevelopmental/neurodegenerative features caused by bi-allelic variants in SNF8 (GenBank: NM_007241.4), encoding the ESCRT-II subunit SNF8. The phenotypic spectrum included four individuals with severe developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, massive reduction of white matter, hypo-/aplasia of the corpus callosum, neurodevelopmental arrest, and early death...
February 21, 2024: American Journal of Human Genetics