Scientific Publications
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Characterization of the Novel Indolylmaleimides'
Protein kinase inhibitors are widely used in chemotherapeutic cancer regimens. Maleimide derivatives such as SB-216763 act as GSK-3 inhibitor targeting cell proliferation, cell death and cell cycle progression.
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Whole Exome Sequencing in a Rare Disease: A Patient with Anomalous Left Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Artery (Bland-White-Garland Syndrome)
Anomalous origin of left coronary artery from pulmonary artery (ALCAPA), also known as the Bland-White-Garland syndrome, is a rare congenital abnormality, with an incidence of 1 in 300,000 live births. Herein we report the results of the first whole exome sequencing (WES) of an ALCAPA patient who…
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A Homozygous Nonsense Variant in IFT52 Is Associated with a Human Skeletal Ciliopathy
Intraflagellar transport (IFT) is vital for the functioning of primary cilia. We examined a child from a consanguineous family who had short stature, narrow thorax, short hands and feet, postaxial polydactyly of hands, pigmentary retinopathy, small teeth and skeletal dysplasia. This is the first…
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Biallelic Truncating Mutations in ALPK3
Cardiomyopathies are usually inherited and predominantly affect adults, but they can also present in childhood. Although our understanding of the molecular basis of pediatric cardiomyopathy has improved, the underlying mechanism remains elusive in a substantial proportion of cases.
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A Homozygous Nonsense Variant in IFT52 Is Associated with a Human Skeletal Ciliopathy
Here we report the first human skeletal ciliopathy associated with a nonsense variant in IFT52, encoding an IFT-B core complex protein.
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Pluripotent Stem Cells
Pluripotent stem cells have the ability to undergo self-renewal and to give rise to all cells of the tissues of the body. However, this definition has been recently complicated by the existence of distinct cellular states that display these features.
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Broadening the Phenotypic Spectrum of Pathogenic LARP7 Variants: Two Cases with Intellectual Disability, Variable Growth Retardation and Distinct Facial Features
In 2012 Alazami et al. described a novel syndromic cause of primordial dwarfism with distinct facial features and severe intellectual disability. Our cases broaden the associated clinical features of the syndrome and contribute to the delineation of the phenotypic spectrum of LARP7 mutations.
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A Novel SOX18 Mutation Uncovered in Jordanian Patient with Hypotrichosis-Lymphedema-Telangiectasia Syndrome by Whole Exome Sequencing
The SOX18 gene encodes a transcription factor that plays a notable role in certain developmental contexts such as lymphangiogenesis, hair follicle development and vasculogenesis. SOX18 mutations are linked to recessive and dominant hypotrichosis-lymphedema-telangiectasia syndrome (HLTS). In this…
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A Novel PORCN Mutation in a Severe Case of Focal Dermal Hypoplasia
Focal dermal hypoplasia is an unusual genetic disease that affects ectodermal and mesodermal derivatives. This is the case of an eight year old female from Colombia with multiple congenital malformations.
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A Recessive Form of Extreme Macrocephaly
PTEN hamartoma tumour syndrome (PHTS) is caused by heterozygous variants in PTEN and is characterised by tumour predisposition, macrocephaly, and cognition impairment. Bi-allelic loss of PTEN activity has not been reported so far and animal models suggest that bi-allelic loss of PTEN activity is…