Homozygous missense variant in <i>C2orf69</i> causes early-onset neurodegeneration, leukoencephalopathy and autoinflammation
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Abstract
Biallelic pathogenic variants in C2orf69 cause a fatal autosomal recessive multisystem disorder characterized by recurrent autoinflammation, hypomyelination, progressive neurodegeneration, microcephaly, failure to thrive, liver dysfunction, respiratory chain defects and accumulation of glycogen in skeletal muscle. No missense variants in C2orf69 have been reported to date. We report a 6-year-old boy with microcephaly, global developmental delays, lower limb spasticity with hyperreflexia, epilepsy, abnormal brain MRI, failure to thrive, recurrent fevers and transaminitis. Whole-exome sequencing identified a homozygous missense c.320 C>G, p.(Pro107Arg) variant of uncertain significance (VUS) in C2orf69 . Skeletal muscle biopsy showed active and chronic muscle fibre degeneration with deposits of periodic acid–Schiff-positive material in affected tissues, consistent with abnormal glycogen storage. Mitochondrial respiratory assays were normal in muscle tissue. Primary patient fibroblasts showed normal levels of mRNA expression but significantly reduced levels of endogenous C2ORF69 protein and GBE1 by Western blot. We report a patient with a homozygous missense variant in C2orf69 , causing loss of function. Depletion of endogenous GBE1 in affected cells can be considered a biomarker for this disorder and assist in the interpretation of VUS in C2orf69 . This expands the clinical and genetic spectrum of C2orf69 -related disorder.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".