Disruptive mutations in TANC2 define a neurodevelopmental syndrome associated with psychiatric disorders

Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) are a heterogeneous group of diseases for which the genetic basis is still unknown in more than half of the cases. Here, the authors report a NDD associated with disruptive variants in the TANC2 gene and show that rols, the TANC2 homolog in flies, is required for...

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Main Authors: Hui Guo, Elisa Bettella, Paul C. Marcogliese, Rongjuan Zhao, Jonathan C. Andrews, Tomasz J. Nowakowski, Madelyn A. Gillentine, Kendra Hoekzema, Tianyun Wang, Huidan Wu, Sharayu Jangam, Cenying Liu, Hailun Ni, Marjolein H. Willemsen, Bregje W. van Bon, Tuula Rinne, Servi J. C. Stevens, Tjitske Kleefstra, Han G. Brunner, Helger G. Yntema, Min Long, Wenjing Zhao, Zhengmao Hu, Cindy Colson, Nicolas Richard, Charles E. Schwartz, Corrado Romano, Lucia Castiglia, Maria Bottitta, Shweta U. Dhar, Deanna J. Erwin, Lisa Emrick, Boris Keren, Alexandra Afenjar, Baosheng Zhu, Bing Bai, Pawel Stankiewicz, Kristin Herman, University of Washington Center for Mendelian Genomics, Saadet Mercimek-Andrews, Jane Juusola, Amy B. Wilfert, Rami Abou Jamra, Benjamin Büttner, Heather C. Mefford, Alison M. Muir, Ingrid E. Scheffer, Brigid M. Regan, Stephen Malone, Jozef Gecz, Jan Cobben, Marjan M. Weiss, Quinten Waisfisz, Emilia K. Bijlsma, Mariëtte J. V. Hoffer, Claudia A. L. Ruivenkamp, Stefano Sartori, Fan Xia, Jill A. Rosenfeld, Raphael A. Bernier, Michael F. Wangler, Shinya Yamamoto, Kun Xia, Alexander P. A. Stegmann, Hugo J. Bellen, Alessandra Murgia, Evan E. Eichler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12435-8