Caroline M Kolvenbach, Tim Felger, Luca Schierbaum, Isabelle Thiffault, Tomi Pastinen, Maria Szczepańska, Marcin Zaniew, Piotr Adamczyk, Allan Bayat, Öznur Yilmaz, Tobias T Lindenberg, Holger Thiele, Friedhelm Hildebrandt, Katrin Hinderhofer, Ute Moog, Alina C Hilger, Bonnie Sullivan, Lauren Bartik, Piotr Gnyś, Phillip Grote, Benjamin Odermatt, Heiko M Reutter, Gabriel C Dworschak
BACKGROUND: SHROOM4 is thought to play an important role in cytoskeletal modification and development of the early nervous system. Previously, single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) or copy number variations (CNVs) in SHROOM4 have been associated with the neurodevelopmental disorder Stocco dos Santos syndrome, but not with congenital anomalies of the urinary tract and the visceral or the cardiovascular system. METHODS: Here, exome sequencing and CNV analyses besides expression studies in zebrafish and mouse and knockdown (KD) experiments using a splice blocking morpholino in zebrafish were performed to study the role of SHROOM4 during embryonic development...
November 15, 2022: Journal of Medical Genetics