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Detection of germline mosaicism in fathers of children with intellectual disability syndromes caused by de novo variants

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De novo variants are a common cause to rare intellectual disability syndromes, associated with low recurrence risk. However, when such variants occur pre‐zygotically in parental germ cells, the recurrence risk… Click to show full abstract

De novo variants are a common cause to rare intellectual disability syndromes, associated with low recurrence risk. However, when such variants occur pre‐zygotically in parental germ cells, the recurrence risk might be higher. Still, the recurrence risk estimates are mainly based on empirical data and the prevalence of germline mosaicism is often unknown.

Keywords: intellectual disability; disability syndromes; germline mosaicism; novo variants

Journal Title: Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine
Year Published: 2022

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