Unraveling synonymous and deep intronic variants causing aberrant splicing in two genetically undiagnosed epilepsy families

Abstract Background Variants identified through parent–child trio-WES yield up to 28–55% positive diagnostic rate across a variety of Mendelian disorders, there remain numerous patients who do not receive a genetic diagnosis. Studies showed that some aberrant splicing variants, which are either not...

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Main Authors: Qiang Li, Yiting Wang, Yijun Pan, Jia Wang, Weishi Yu, Xiaodong Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-06-01
Series:BMC Medical Genomics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12920-021-01008-8