Guidance for estimating penetrance of monogenic disease-causing variants in population cohorts

CF Wright, LN Sharp, L Jackson, A Murray, JS Ware… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Penetrance is the probability that an individual with a pathogenic genetic variant develops a
specific disease. Knowing the penetrance of variants for monogenic disorders is important …

Standardised practices in the networked management of congenital hyperinsulinism: a UK national collaborative consensus

MG Shaikh, AK Lucas-Herald, A Dastamani… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Congenital hyperinsulinism (CHI) is a condition characterised by severe and recurrent
hypoglycaemia in infants and young children caused by inappropriate insulin over …

Noncoding variants alter GATA2 expression in rhombomere 4 motor neurons and cause dominant hereditary congenital facial paresis

AP Tenney, SA Di Gioia, BD Webb, WM Chan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Hereditary congenital facial paresis type 1 (HCFP1) is an autosomal dominant disorder of
absent or limited facial movement that maps to chromosome 3q21-q22 and is hypothesized …

[HTML][HTML] International guidelines for the diagnosis and management of hyperinsulinism

DD De Leon, JB Arnoux, I Banerjee, I Bergada… - Hormone research in …, 2024 - karger.com
Background: Hyperinsulinism (HI) due to dysregulation of pancreatic beta-cell insulin
secretion is the most common and most severe cause of persistent hypoglycemia in infants …

Whole-genome sequencing in 333,100 individuals reveals rare non-coding single variant and aggregate associations with height

G Hawkes, RN Beaumont, Z Li, R Mandla, X Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The role of rare non-coding variation in complex human phenotypes is still largely unknown.
To elucidate the impact of rare variants in regulatory elements, we performed a whole …

Bi‐allelic pathogenic variants in PABPC1L cause oocyte maturation arrest and female infertility

W Wang, J Guo, J Shi, Q Li, B Chen, Z Pan… - EMBO Molecular …, 2023 - embopress.org
Oocyte maturation arrest is one of the important causes of female infertility, but the genetic
factors remain largely unknown. PABPC1L, a predominant poly (A)‐binding protein in …

A ONECUT1 regulatory, non-coding region in pancreatic development and diabetes

S Merz, V Senée, A Philippi, F Oswald, M Shaigan… - Cell Reports, 2024 - cell.com
In a patient with permanent neonatal syndromic diabetes clinically similar to cases with
ONECUT1 biallelic mutations, we identified a disease-causing deletion located upstream of …

Pathological features in non-neoplastic congenital and adult hyperinsulinism: from nesidioblastosis to current terminology and understanding

C Sempoux, G Klöppel - Endocrine-Related Cancer, 2023 - erc.bioscientifica.com
Nesidioblastoma and nesidioblastosis were terms given to neoplastic and non-neoplastic
lesions of the pancreas associated with pancreatogenous hyperinsulinaemic …

Functional variants in a TTTG microsatellite on 15q26. 1 cause familial nonautoimmune thyroid abnormalities

S Narumi, K Nagasaki, M Kiriya, E Uehara, K Akiba… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Insufficient thyroid hormone production in newborns is referred to as congenital
hypothyroidism. Multinodular goiter (MNG), characterized by an enlarged thyroid gland with …

Aiding cancer's “Sweet Tooth”: Role of hexokinases in metabolic reprogramming

Z Farooq, H Ismail, SA Bhat, BT Layden, MW Khan - Life, 2023 - mdpi.com
Hexokinases (HKs) convert hexose sugars to hexose-6-phosphate, thus trapping them
inside cells to meet the synthetic and energetic demands. HKs participate in various …