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ArticleNeurogenetics2023

Aberrant Splicing Caused by a Novel VPS16 Variant Linked to Dystonia Type 30.

Mariana Santos, João Massano, Alexandra Manuel Lopes, Ana Filipa Brandão, João Parente Freixo, Jorge Oliveira

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Article in Neurogenetics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Expanding the Genetic and Phenotypic Spectrum of DYT-VPS16: The Importance of Splice-Site Variants.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mariana SantosUnIGENe, IBMC-Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, i3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, R. Alfredo Allen 208, 4200-135, Porto, Portugal. mariana.graca@ibmc.up.pt.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2343-2215
João MassanoDepartment of Neurology, Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João, and Faculty of Medicine University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5791-7149
Alexandra Manuel LopesCGPP-Center for Predictive and Preventive Genetics, IBMC-Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, i3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Ana Filipa BrandãoCGPP-Center for Predictive and Preventive Genetics, IBMC-Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, i3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
João Parente FreixoCGPP-Center for Predictive and Preventive Genetics, IBMC-Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, i3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8358-6267
Jorge OliveiraCGPP-Center for Predictive and Preventive Genetics, IBMC-Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, i3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3924-6385
i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto · PTUniversidade do Porto · PT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dystonia is a hyperkinetic movement disorder characterized by sustained or intermittent involuntary muscle contractions, causing abnormal postures and/or repetitive movements. In this report, we identified a novel heterozygous splice-site variant in VPS16 (NM_022575.4:c.240+3G>C) in a patient with cervical and upper limb dystonia without other neurological or extra-neurological features. Analysis of patient's blood mRNA showed disruption of exon 3/intron 3 donor splice-site, leading to exon 3 skipping, which predictably results in a frameshift [p.(Ala48Valfs*14)]. Despite the scarcity of splice-affecting variants described in VPS16-related dystonia, our report contributes with the first fully characterized variant at the mRNA level.

Indexed as

DystoniaExonsFrameshift MutationHumansRNA, MessengerRNA SplicingVesicular Transport ProteinsRNA, MessengerVesicular Transport ProteinsVPS16 protein, humandystoniasplicingvariantVPS16

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PMID37226038
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