Expanding the mutational landscape and clinical phenotype of the YIF1B related brain disorder

Eva Medico Salsench, Reza Maroofian, Ruizhi Deng, Kristina Lanko, Anita Nikoncuk, Belén Pérez, Obdulia Sánchez-Lijarcio, Salvador Ibáñez-Mico, Antonina Wojcik, Marcelo Vargas, Nouriya Abbas Al-Sannaa, Marian Y Girgis, Tainá Regina Damaceno Silveira, Peter Bauer, Audrey Schroeder, Chin-To Fong, Amber Begtrup, Meisam Babaei, Mehran Beiraghi Toosi, Farah AshrafzadehShima Imannezhad, Mohammad Doosti, Najmeh Ahangari, Paria Najarzadeh Torbati, Ehsan Ghayoor Karimiani, David Murphy, Elisa Cali, Ibrahim H Kaya, Mohammad AlMuhaizea, Dilek Colak, Kelly J Cardona-Londoño, Stefan T. Arold, Henry Houlden, Aida Bertoli-Avella, Namik Kaya, Tahsin Stefan Barakat

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Abstract

With great interest we read the article by Diaz and colleagues1 providing further evidence of a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by bi-allelic variants disrupting the function of YIF1B, by reporting a second patient cohort and a mouse model. We had earlier reported 6 individuals from 5 unrelated families, harboring bi-allelic protein truncating mutations in YIF1B, presenting with a progressive encephalopathy with various degrees of movement disorders, microcephaly and epilepsy2.
Original languageEnglish (US)
JournalBrain
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StatePublished - Aug 9 2021

Bibliographical note

KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2021-08-12
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): FCC/1/1976-25, OSR, REI/1/4446-01
Acknowledgements: RD is supported by a China Scholarship Council (CSC) PhD Fellowship (201906300026) for her PhD studies at the Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. BP was funded by PI19/01155 and B2017/BMD-3721. The work by KJCL and STA was supported by the
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) through the baseline fund and the Award No. FCC/1/1976-25 and REI/1/4446-01 from the Office of Sponsored Research (OSR). NK’s lab is supported by KFSHRC seed grants (RAC2120022), King Salman Center
for Disability Research (KSCDR#2180 004) and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST#14-MED2007-20). TSB’s lab is supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (ZonMw Veni, Grant 91617021), an Erasmus MC Fellowship 2017 and Erasmus MC Human Disease Model Award 2018.

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  • Clinical Neurology

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