Journal article
Cryptic intronic NBAS variant reveals the genetic basis of recurrent liver failure in a child
Rocio Rius, Lisa G Riley, Yiran Guo, Minal Menezes, Alison G Compton, Nicole J Van Bergen, Velimir Gayevskiy, Mark J Cowley, Beryl B Cummings, Louisa Adams, Carolyn Ellaway, David R Thorburn, Hakon Hakonarson, John Christodoulou
MOLECULAR GENETICS AND METABOLISM | ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE | Published : 2019
Abstract
BACKGROUND: In almost half of patients with acute liver failure the cause is unknown, making targeted treatment and decisions about liver transplantation a challenge. Monogenic disorders may contribute to a significant proportion of these undiagnosed patients, and so the incorporation of technologies such as next generation sequencing (NGS) in the clinic could aid in providing a definitive diagnosis. However, this technology may present a major challenge in interpretation of sequence variants, particularly those in non-coding regions. RESULTS: In this report we describe a case of Infantile liver failure syndrome 2 (ILFS2; MIM 616483) due to novel bi-allelic variants in the NBAS gene. A misse..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This research was supported by a New South Wales Office of Health and Medical Research Council Sydney Genomics Collaborative grant (JC), NHMRC project grant 1026891 (JC), NHMRC research fellowship 1102896 (DRT) and a NSW Health Early-Mid Career Fellowship (MJC). Whole exome sequencing, data analysis was done in the Center for Applied Genomics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia through research funding from Aevi Genomic Medicine Inc. We are grateful to the Crane and Perkins families for their generous financial support. The research conducted at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute was supported by the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Program.