Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Mutations in FAM50A suggest that Armfield XLID syndrome is a spliceosomopathy

  • Yu-Ri Lee,
  • Kamal Khan,
  • Kim Armfield-Uhas,
  • Sujata Srikanth,
  • Nicola A. Thompson,
  • Mercedes Pardo,
  • Lu Yu,
  • Joy W. Norris,
  • Yunhui Peng,
  • Karen W. Gripp,
  • Kirk A. Aleck,
  • Chumei Li,
  • Ed Spence,
  • Tae-Ik Choi,
  • Soo Jeong Kwon,
  • Hee-Moon Park,
  • Daseuli Yu,
  • Won Do Heo,
  • Marie R. Mooney,
  • Shahid M. Baig,
  • Ingrid M. Wentzensen,
  • Aida Telegrafi,
  • Kirsty McWalter,
  • Trevor Moreland,
  • Chelsea Roadhouse,
  • Keri Ramsey,
  • Michael J. Lyons,
  • Cindy Skinner,
  • Emil Alexov,
  • Nicholas Katsanis,
  • Roger E. Stevenson,
  • Jyoti S. Choudhary,
  • David J. Adams,
  • Cheol-Hee Kim,
  • Erica E. Davis,
  • Charles E. Schwartz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17452-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Armfield X-linked disability (XLID) disorder has previously been linked to a locus in Xq28. Here, the authors report rare missense variants in FAM50A at Xq28, show that FAM50A interacts with the spliceosome, and that mis-splicing is enriched in knockout zebrafish suggesting it is a spliceosomopathy.