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The variability of SMARCA4-related Coffin-Siris syndrome: Do nonsense candidate variants add to milder phenotypes?
Dong Li1, Rebecca C Ahrens-Nicklas2, Janice Baker3
1Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Abstract:
SMARCA4 encodes a central ATPase subunit in the BRG1-/BRM-associated factors (BAF) or polybromo-associated BAF (PBAF) complex in humans, which is responsible in part for chromatin remodeling and transcriptional regulation. Variants in this and other genes encoding BAF/PBAF complexes have been implicated in Coffin-Siris Syndrome, a multiple congenital anomaly syndrome classically characterized by learning and developmental differences, coarse facial features, hypertrichosis, and underdevelopment of the fifth digits/nails of the hands and feet. Individuals with SMARCA4 variants have been previously reported and appear to display a variable phenotype. We describe here a cohort of 15 unrelated individuals with SMARCA4 variants from the Coffin-Siris syndrome/BAF pathway disorders registry who further display variability in severity and degrees of learning impairment and health issues. Within this cohort, we also report two individuals with novel nonsense variants who appear to have a phenotype of milder learning/behavioral differences and no organ-system involvement.
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