Dominant optic atrophy: Culprit mitochondria in the optic nerve

G Lenaers, A Neutzner, Y Le Dantec, C Jüschke… - Progress in Retinal and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Dominant optic atrophy (DOA) is an inherited mitochondrial disease leading to specific
degeneration of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), thus compromising transmission of visual …

Noncoding variants alter GATA2 expression in rhombomere 4 motor neurons and cause dominant hereditary congenital facial paresis

AP Tenney, SA Di Gioia, BD Webb, WM Chan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Hereditary congenital facial paresis type 1 (HCFP1) is an autosomal dominant disorder of
absent or limited facial movement that maps to chromosome 3q21-q22 and is hypothesized …

Structural and Functional Aspects of the Neurodevelopmental Gene NR2F1: From Animal Models to Human Pathology

C Tocco, M Bertacchi, M Studer - Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The assembly and maturation of the mammalian brain result from an intricate cascade of
highly coordinated developmental events, such as cell proliferation, migration, and …

Phen2Gene: rapid phenotype-driven gene prioritization for rare diseases

M Zhao, JM Havrilla, L Fang, Y Chen… - NAR genomics and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) terms are increasingly used in diagnostic
settings to aid in the characterization of patient phenotypes. The HPO annotation database …

NR2F1 regulates regional progenitor dynamics in the mouse neocortex and cortical gyrification in BBSOAS patients

M Bertacchi, AL Romano, A Loubat… - The EMBO …, 2020 - embopress.org
The relationships between impaired cortical development and consequent malformations in
neurodevelopmental disorders, as well as the genes implicated in these processes, are not …

Impact of integrated translational research on clinical exome sequencing

EW Klee, MA Cousin, F Pinto e Vairo… - Genetics in …, 2021 - nature.com
Purpose Exome sequencing often identifies pathogenic genetic variants in patients with
undiagnosed diseases. Nevertheless, frequent findings of variants of uncertain significance …

The pleiotropic transcriptional regulator COUP-TFI plays multiple roles in neural development and disease

M Bertacchi, J Parisot, M Studer - Brain research, 2019 - Elsevier
Transcription factors are expressed in a dynamic fashion both in time and space during
brain development, and exert their roles by activating a cascade of multiple target genes …

Pathophysiological heterogeneity of the BBSOA neurodevelopmental syndrome

M Bertacchi, C Tocco, CP Schaaf, M Studer - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
The formation and maturation of the human brain is regulated by highly coordinated
developmental events, such as neural cell proliferation, migration and differentiation. Any …

Phenotypic expansion of Bosch–Boonstra–Schaaf optic atrophy syndrome and further evidence for genotype–phenotype correlations

ME Rech, JM McCarthy, CA Chen… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Bosch–Boonstra–Schaaf Optic Atrophy Syndrome (BBSOAS) is an autosomal
dominant neurodevelopmental disorder caused by loss‐of‐function variants in NR2F1 and …

Mouse Nr2f1 haploinsufficiency unveils new pathological mechanisms of a human optic atrophy syndrome

M Bertacchi, A Gruart, P Kaimakis, C Allet… - EMBO molecular …, 2019 - embopress.org
Optic nerve atrophy represents the most common form of hereditary optic neuropathies
leading to vision impairment. The recently described Bosch‐Boonstra‐Schaaf optic atrophy …