Marked intrafamilial variability of clinical and neuroimaging manifestations in NFIB-related developmental disorder.
Simone GanaValentina SerpieriElisa GiorgioMelanie IorioElisa RognoneAnna PichiecchioMatteo ChiappediEnza Maria ValentePublished in: American journal of medical genetics. Part A (2023)
NFIB belongs to the nuclear factor I (NFI) family of transcription factors that, by activating or repressing gene expression during embryogenesis, has a relevant role in the development of several organs including the brain. Heterozygous pathogenic variants of NFIB have recently been associated with developmental delay and mild-to-moderate intellectual disability, macrocephaly, nonspecific facial dysmorphisms, and corpus callosum dysgenesis. We identified a heterozygous missense variant in the NFIB gene in a 15-year-old boy with neurodevelopmental disorder and brain malformations, who inherited the variant from his substantially healthy mother presenting only minor physical and neuroanatomical defects.
Keyphrases
- soft tissue
- intellectual disability
- nuclear factor
- gene expression
- autism spectrum disorder
- resting state
- toll like receptor
- early onset
- copy number
- white matter
- transcription factor
- genome wide identification
- functional connectivity
- dna methylation
- physical activity
- signaling pathway
- genome wide
- cerebral ischemia
- case report
- immune response
- multiple sclerosis
- congenital heart disease