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Pauline Planté-Bordeneuve1,2,3, Anne-Sophie Jourdain1,2, Caroline Thuillier2
1Univ. Lille, ULR7364 RADEME, FHU-G4 Génomique, Lille, F-59000, France.
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Genome sequencing (GS) often reveals non-coding variants of uncertain significance, especially those predicted to affect pre-mRNA splicing. We present an integrative workflow combining splice prediction, a minigene assay and long-read RNA sequencing to assess their functional impact. Applied to a de novo heterozygous 17-bp intronic deletion in FOXP1 from a child with a neurodevelopmental disorder, this approach showed impaired exon recognition and multiple aberrant transcript isoforms, supporting a loss-of-function mechanism consistent with FOXP1 haploinsufficiency. Our results illustrate how experimental and isoform-resolved transcriptomic analyses can refine the interpretation of non-coding splice-altering variants detected by GS in clinical genomics.
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