Exome sequencing identifies novel mutations in C5orf42 in patients with Joubert syndrome with oral-facial-digital anomalies.

Oral-facial-digital syndrome VI (OFD6 OMIM #277170), also called Varadi-Papp syndrome, is a ciliopathy inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern. Recently, mutations in C5orf42 (OMIM #614571) have been associated with OFD6. OFD6 overlaps with Joubert syndrome and mutations in C5orf42 were described in Joubert syndrome 17 (JBTS17, OMIM #614571). Using exome sequencing we report three novel variants and one previously reported variant in the C5orf42 gene in patients with OFD6.