Bi-allelic JAM2 Variants Lead to Early-Onset Recessive Primary Familial Brain Calcification.
Schottlaender LV, Abeti R, Jaunmuktane Z, Macmillan C, Chelban V, O'Callaghan B, McKinley J, Maroofian R, Efthymiou S, Athanasiou-Fragkouli A, Forbes R, Soutar MPM, Livingston JH, Kalmar B, Swayne O, Hotton G; SYNAPS Study Group; Pittman A, Mendes de Oliveira JR, de Grandis M, Richard-Loendt A, Launchbury F, Althonayan J, McDonnell G, Carr A, Khan S, Beetz C, Bisgin A, Tug Bozdogan S, Begtrup A, Torti E, Greensmith L, Giunti P, Morrison PJ, Brandner S, Aurrand-Lions M, Houlden H.
Schottlaender LV, et al.
Am J Hum Genet. 2020 Mar 5;106(3):412-421. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2020.02.007.
Am J Hum Genet. 2020.
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We show that JAM2 variants lead to reduction of JAM2 mRNA expression and absence of JAM2 protein in patient's fibroblasts, consistent with a loss-of-function mechanism. We show that the human phenotype is replicated in the jam2 complete knockout mouse …
We show that JAM2 variants lead to reduction of JAM2 mRNA expression and absence of JAM2 protein in patient's fibroblas …