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Trial reportHuman genetics2015

Homozygous MED25 mutation implicated in eye-intellectual disability syndrome.

Lina Basel-Vanagaite, Pola Smirin-Yosef, Jenna Lee Essakow, Shay Tzur, Irina Lagovsky, Idit Maya, Metsada Pasmanik-Chor, Adva Yeheskel, Osnat Konen, Naama Orenstein and 11 more

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Trial report in Human genetics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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17 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

21 authors at 7 institutions in 2 countries.

Lina Basel-VanagaitePediatric Genetics Unit, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petach Tikva, Israel, basel@post.tau.ac.il.
Pola Smirin-Yosef
Jenna Lee Essakow
Shay Tzur
Irina Lagovsky
Idit Maya
Metsada Pasmanik-Chor
Adva Yeheskel
Osnat Konen
Naama Orenstein
Monika Weisz Hubshman
Valerie Drasinover
Nurit Magal
Gaby Peretz Amit
Yael Zalzstein
Avraham Zeharia
Mordechai Shohat
Rachel Straussberg
Didier Monté
Mali Salmon-Divon
Doron M Behar
Rabin Medical Center · ILSchneider Children's Medical Center · ILTel Aviv University · ILAriel University · ILRafael Advanced Defense Systems (Israel) · ILCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRRambam Health Care Campus · IL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genetic syndromes involving both brain and eye abnormalities are numerous and include syndromes such as Warburg micro syndrome, Kaufman oculocerebrofacial syndrome, Cerebro-oculo-facio-skeletal syndrome, Kahrizi syndrome and others. Using exome sequencing, we have been able to identify homozygous mutation p.(Tyr39Cys) in MED25 as the cause of a syndrome characterized by eye, brain, cardiac and palatal abnormalities as well as growth retardation, microcephaly and severe intellectual disability in seven patients from four unrelated families, all originating from the same village. The protein encoded by MED25 belongs to Mediator complex or MED complex, which is an evolutionary conserved multi-subunit RNA polymerase II transcriptional regulator complex. The MED25 point mutation is located in the von Willebrand factor type A (MED25 VWA) domain which is responsible for MED25 recruitment into the Mediator complex; co-immunoprecipitation experiment demonstrated that this mutation dramatically impairs MED25 interaction with the Mediator complex in mammalian cells.

Indexed as

HomozygoteAbnormalities, MultipleAdolescentAnimalsCell LineChildChild, PreschoolEye AbnormalitiesFemaleHumansInfantInfant, NewbornIntellectual DisabilityMaleMediator ComplexProtein Structure, TertiaryMED25 protein, humanMediator ComplexRNA Polymerase II

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PMID25792360
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