Pierre Rustin
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Nature Genetics
Mitochondrial signaling cascades have been implicated in the activation of programmed cell death and, more recently, control of cell proliferation. A nuclear gene encoding a mitochondrial Krebs-cycle protein, fumarate hydratase, is now shown to act as a major tumor-suppressor gene.
Bourdon, Alice Minai, Limor Serre, Valérie Jais, Jean-Philippe Sarzi, Emmanuelle Aubert, Sophie Chrétien, Dominique de Lonlay, Pascale Paquis-Flucklinger, Véronique Arakawa, Hirofumi
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Nature Genetics
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) depletion syndrome (MDS; MIM 251880) is a prevalent cause of oxidative phosphorylation disorders characterized by a reduction in mtDNA copy number. The hitherto recognized disease mechanisms alter either mtDNA replication (POLG (ref. 1)) or the salvage pathway of mitochondrial deoxyribonucleosides 5'-triphosphates (dNTPs) ...
Vallot, Céline Christophe Huret Lesecque, Yann Resch, Alissa Oudrhiri, Noufissa Bennaceur-Griscelli, Annelise Duret, Laurent Claire Rougeulle
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Nature Genetics
X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) in mammals relies on XIST, a long noncoding transcript that coats and silences the X chromosome in cis. Here we report the discovery of a long noncoding RNA, XACT, that is expressed from and coats the active X chromosome specifically in human pluripotent cells. In the absence of XIST, XACT is expressed from both X ch...
Lagresle-Peyrou, Chantal Six, Emmanuelle M Picard, Capucine Rieux-Laucat, Frédéric Michel, Vincent Ditadi, Andrea Demerens-de Chappedelaine, Corinne Morillon, Estelle Valensi, Françoise Simon-Stoos, Karen L
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Nature Genetics
Reticular dysgenesis is an autosomal recessive form of human severe combined immunodeficiency characterized by an early differentiation arrest in the myeloid lineage and impaired lymphoid maturation. In addition, affected newborns have bilateral sensorineural deafness. Here we identify biallelic mutations in AK2 (adenylate kinase 2) in seven indivi...
De Keersmaecker, Kim Atak, Zeynep Kalender Li, Ning Vicente, Carmen Patchett, Stephanie Girardi, Tiziana Gianfelici, Valentina Geerdens, Ellen Clappier, Emmanuelle Porcu, Michaël
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Nature Genetics
T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is caused by the cooperation of multiple oncogenic lesions. We used exome sequencing on 67 T-ALLs to gain insight into the mutational spectrum in these leukemias. We detected protein-altering mutations in 508 genes, with an average of 8.2 mutations in pediatric and 21.0 mutations in adult T-ALL. Using str...
Nicolas, Gaël Viatte, Lydie Lou, Dan-Qing Bennoun, Myriam Beaumont, Carole Kahn, Axel Andrews, Nancy C Sophie Vaulont
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Nature Genetics
Hereditary hemochromatosis is a prevalent genetic disorder of iron hyperabsorption leading to hyperferremia, tissue iron deposition and complications including cirrhosis, hepatocarcinoma, cardiomyopathy and diabetes. Most individuals affected with hereditary hemochromatosis are homozygous with respect to a missense mutation that disrupts the confor...
Huber, Céline Dias-Santagata, Dora Glaser, Anna O'Sullivan, James Brauner, Raja Wu, Kenneth Xu, Xinsong Pearce, Kerra Wang, Rong Uzielli, Maria Luisa Giovannucci
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Nature Genetics
Intrauterine growth retardation is caused by maternal, fetal or placental factors that result in impaired endovascular trophoblast invasion and reduced placental perfusion. Although various causes of intrauterine growth retardation have been identified, most cases remain unexplained. Studying 29 families with 3-M syndrome (OMIM 273750), an autosoma...
Geneviève, David Proulle, Valérie Isidor, Bertrand Bellais, Samuel Serre, Valérie Fatima Djouadi Picard, Capucine Vignon-Savoye, Capucine Bader-Meunier, Brigitte Blanche, Stéphane
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Nature Genetics
Studying consanguineous families with Ghosal hematodiaphyseal dysplasia syndrome (GHDD), a disorder of increased bone density, we identified mutations in TBXAS1, which encodes thromboxane synthase (TXAS). TXAS, an enzyme of the arachidonic acid cascade, produces thromboxane A(2) (TXA(2)). Platelets from subjects with GHDD showed a specific deficit ...
Thauvin-Robinet, Christel Lee, Jaclyn S Lopez, Estelle Herranz-Pérez, Vicente Shida, Toshinobu Franco, Brunella Jego, Laurence Ye, Fan Pasquier, Laurent Loget, Philippe
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Nature Genetics
Centrioles are microtubule-based, barrel-shaped structures that initiate the assembly of centrosomes and cilia. How centriole length is precisely set remains elusive. The microcephaly protein CPAP (also known as MCPH6) promotes procentriole growth, whereas the oral-facial-digital (OFD) syndrome protein OFD1 represses centriole elongation. Here we u...
Van Houdt, Jeroen K J Nowakowska, Beata Anna Sousa, Sérgio B van Schaik, Barbera D C Seuntjens, Eve Avonce, Nelson Sifrim, Alejandro Abdul-Rahman, Omar A van den Boogaard, Marie-José H Bottani, Armand
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Nature Genetics
Nicolaides-Baraitser syndrome (NBS) is characterized by sparse hair, distinctive facial morphology, distal-limb anomalies and intellectual disability. We sequenced the exomes of ten individuals with NBS and identified heterozygous variants in SMARCA2 in eight of them. Extended molecular screening identified nonsynonymous SMARCA2 mutations in 36 of ...