While I was taking a holiday last week, 2 super exciting preprints dropped, adding to another posted 6 days prior.
These papers describe a remarkable role for *recessive* variants in *RNU2-2* causing developmental and epileptic encephalopathy
๐งต by the amazing @christeldepienne.bsky.social ๐
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Nicky Whiffin
After our study on RNU4-2 and RNU5B-1 published in May (Nava et al, Nature Genetics 2025), I am excited to share our new preprint reporting dominant and recessive variants in RNU2-2 as a frequent cause of developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (DEE).
๐ www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Variants in spliceosomal small nuclear RNA (snRNA) genes RNU4-2 (ReNU syndrome), RNU5B-1 , and RNU2-2 have recently been linked to dominant neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), revealing a major, prev...