Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

RRP7A links primary microcephaly to dysfunction of ribosome biogenesis, resorption of primary cilia, and neurogenesis

  • Muhammad Farooq,
  • Louise Lindbæk,
  • Nicolai Krogh,
  • Canan Doganli,
  • Cecilie Keller,
  • Maren Mönnich,
  • André Brás Gonçalves,
  • Srinivasan Sakthivel,
  • Yuan Mang,
  • Ambrin Fatima,
  • Vivi Søgaard Andersen,
  • Muhammad S. Hussain,
  • Hans Eiberg,
  • Lars Hansen,
  • Klaus Wilbrandt Kjaer,
  • Jay Gopalakrishnan,
  • Lotte Bang Pedersen,
  • Kjeld Møllgård,
  • Henrik Nielsen,
  • Shahid. M. Baig,
  • Niels Tommerup,
  • Søren Tvorup Christensen,
  • Lars Allan Larsen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19658-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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The RRP7A a gene is involved in ribosome biogenesis. Here the authors report a homozygous missense mutation segregating with primary microcephaly, and show that this occurs via functional defects in both nucleoli and primary cilia disrupting cell proliferation and neurogenesis.