Mutations Implicate mRNA-Export Pathway in X-Linked Intellectual Disability
Export of mRNA from the cell nucleus to the cytoplasm is essential for protein synthesis, a process vital to all living eukaryotic cells. mRNA export is highly conserved and ubiquitous. Mutations affecting mRNA and mRNA processing or export factors, which cause aberrant retention of mRNAs in the nucleus, are thus emerging as contributors to an important class of human genetic disorders. Here, we report that variants in THOC2, which encodes a subunit of the highly conserved TREX mRNA-export complex, cause syndromic intellectual disability (ID).
Source: The American Journal of Human Genetics - Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Raman Kumar, Mark A. Corbett, Bregje W.M. van Bon, Joshua A. Woenig, Lloyd Weir, Evelyn Douglas, Kathryn L. Friend, Alison Gardner, Marie Shaw, Lachlan A. Jolly, Chuan Tan, Matthew F. Hunter, Anna Hackett, Michael Field, Elizabeth E. Palmer, Melan Tags: Report Source Type: research
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