Geiger EA

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• Genomic regions associated with microdeletion/microduplication syndromes exhibit extreme diversity of structural variation
• The 22q11 low copy repeats are characterized by unprecedented size and structural variability
• Discovery of a potentially deleterious variant in TMEM87B in a patient with a hemizygous 2q13 microdeletion suggests a recessive condition characterized by congenital heart disease and restrictive cardiomyopathy
• Mutations in the mitochondrial cysteinyl-tRNA synthase gene, CARS2, lead to a severe epileptic encephalopathy and complex movement disorder
• An X-linked cobalamin disorder caused by mutations in transcriptional coregulator HCFC1