HACE1 deficiency leads to structural and functional neurodevelopmental defects.
Vanja NagyRonja HollsteinTsung-Pin PaiMichel K HerdePisanu BuphamalaiPaul MoesenederEwelina LenartowiczAnoop KavirayaniGeorg Christoph KorenkeIvona KozieradzkiRoberto NitschAna CicvaricFrancisco J Monje QuirogaMatthew A DeardorffEmma C BedoukianYun LiGökhan YigitJ Formula See Text Rg MencheE Ferda PerçinBernd WollnikChristian HennebergerFrank J KaiserJosef M PenningerPublished in: Neurology. Genetics (2019)
Our results provide a first animal model to dissect this complex human disease syndrome, establishing the first causal proof that a HACE1 deficiency results in decreased synapse number and structural and behavioral neuropathologic features that resemble SPPRS patients.