Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Disruptive mutations in TANC2 define a neurodevelopmental syndrome associated with psychiatric disorders

  • Hui Guo,
  • Elisa Bettella,
  • Paul C. Marcogliese,
  • Rongjuan Zhao,
  • Jonathan C. Andrews,
  • Tomasz J. Nowakowski,
  • Madelyn A. Gillentine,
  • Kendra Hoekzema,
  • Tianyun Wang,
  • Huidan Wu,
  • Sharayu Jangam,
  • Cenying Liu,
  • Hailun Ni,
  • Marjolein H. Willemsen,
  • Bregje W. van Bon,
  • Tuula Rinne,
  • Servi J. C. Stevens,
  • Tjitske Kleefstra,
  • Han G. Brunner,
  • Helger G. Yntema,
  • Min Long,
  • Wenjing Zhao,
  • Zhengmao Hu,
  • Cindy Colson,
  • Nicolas Richard,
  • Charles E. Schwartz,
  • Corrado Romano,
  • Lucia Castiglia,
  • Maria Bottitta,
  • Shweta U. Dhar,
  • Deanna J. Erwin,
  • Lisa Emrick,
  • Boris Keren,
  • Alexandra Afenjar,
  • Baosheng Zhu,
  • Bing Bai,
  • Pawel Stankiewicz,
  • Kristin Herman,
  • University of Washington Center for Mendelian Genomics,
  • Saadet Mercimek-Andrews,
  • Jane Juusola,
  • Amy B. Wilfert,
  • Rami Abou Jamra,
  • Benjamin Büttner,
  • Heather C. Mefford,
  • Alison M. Muir,
  • Ingrid E. Scheffer,
  • Brigid M. Regan,
  • Stephen Malone,
  • Jozef Gecz,
  • Jan Cobben,
  • Marjan M. Weiss,
  • Quinten Waisfisz,
  • Emilia K. Bijlsma,
  • Mariëtte J. V. Hoffer,
  • Claudia A. L. Ruivenkamp,
  • Stefano Sartori,
  • Fan Xia,
  • Jill A. Rosenfeld,
  • Raphael A. Bernier,
  • Michael F. Wangler,
  • Shinya Yamamoto,
  • Kun Xia,
  • Alexander P. A. Stegmann,
  • Hugo J. Bellen,
  • Alessandra Murgia,
  • Evan E. Eichler

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12435-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) are a heterogeneous group of diseases for which the genetic basis is still unknown in more than half of the cases. Here, the authors report a NDD associated with disruptive variants in the TANC2 gene and show that rols, the TANC2 homolog in flies, is required for synapse growth and function.