ISSN 1662-4009 (online)

ey0015.8-8 | Important for Clinical Practice | ESPEYB15

8.8 Noninvasive prenatal diagnosis of 21-hydroxylase deficiency using target capture sequencing of maternal plasma DNA

D Ma , Y Yuan , C Luo , Y Wang , T Jiang , F Guo , J Zhang , C Chen , Y Sun , J Cheng , P Hu , J Wang , H Yang , X Yi , W Wang , Asan , Z Xu

To read the full abstract: Sci Rep. 2017; 7(1): 7427Prenatal dexamethasone treatment has been suggested over three decades ago to prevent virilization of a female fetus affected with 21-hydroxylase deficiency due to genetic mutations in the CYP21A2 gene. However, current treatment guidelines for CAH regard this treatment still as experimental, mainly because follow-up studies of treated fetu...

ey0021.15-12 | Artificial Intelligence | ESPEYB21

15.12. Accurate proteome-wide missense variant effect prediction with AlphaMissense

J Cheng , G Novati , J Pan , C Bycroft , A Zemgulyte , T Applebaum , A Pritzel , LH Wong , M Zielinski , T Sargeant , RG Schneider , AW Senior , J Jumper , D Hassabis , P Kohli , Z. Avsec

In Brief: The authors describe AlphaMissense, a machine-learning tool that predicts the pathogenicity of 71 million human coding variants. 22.8 million variants (32%) are classified as likely pathogenic and 40.9 million (57%) as likely benign. They provide these databases freely as resources to the international research community.These authors from Google DeepMind previously developed and released AlphaFold, a revolutionary machine-learning approach to ...

ey0020.5-13 | Basic Research | ESPEYB20

5.13. NOS1 mutations cause hypogonadotropic hypogonadism with sensory and cognitive deficits that can be reversed in infantile mice

K Chachlaki , A Messina , V Delli , V Leysen , C Maurnyi , C Huber , G Ternier , K Skrapits , G Papadakis , S Shruti , M Kapanidou , X Cheng , J Acierno , J Rademaker , S Rasika , R Quinton , M Niedziela , D L'Allemand , D Pignatelli , M Dirlewander , M Lang-Muritano , P Kempf , S Catteau-Jonard , NJ Niederlander , P Ciofi , M Tena-Sempere , J Garthwaite , L Storme , P Avan , E Hrabovszky , A Carleton , F Santoni , P Giacobini , N Pitteloud , V Prevot

Brief summary: This study identified nitric oxide synthase 1 (NOS1) heterozygous missense variants in 6 patients with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. Altered minipuberty and puberty as well as cognitive impairment were observed in NOS1 deficient mice.Nitric oxide (NO) is produced under the control of NO synthase in hypothalamic neurons. NO plays a crucial role in regulating gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) secretion, acting as a strong inhibitory sig...