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Record W4410480298 · doi:10.3389/fgene.2025.1595298

Cognitive decline in an adult with ATR-16 syndrome due to an unbalanced translocation between 11p15.5 and 16p13.3: a case report

2025· article· en· W4410480298 on OpenAlexafffund
Angela Krutish, Rebekah Kukurudz-Gorowski, Felippe Borlot, Patrick Frosk, Cheryl R. Greenberg, Aizeddin A. Mhanni

Bibliographic record

VenueFrontiers in Genetics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicGenetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Canadian institutionsUniversity of CalgaryUniversity of ManitobaChildren's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba
FundersHospital for Sick ChildrenGenome Canada
KeywordsChromosomal translocationCognitionCognitive declineComputer sciencePsychologyBiologyGeneticsDevelopmental psychologyMedicineNeuroscienceGeneInternal medicine

Abstract

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Background: Chromosome 16p13.3 deletions cause a contiguous gene deletion syndrome, ATR-16 syndrome. The classic phenotype of ATR-16 syndrome includes either alpha-thalassemia trait or hemoglobin H disease and intellectual disability; however, considerable variable expressivity has been reported with some patients having only an alpha-thalassemia disorder and others exhibiting a more severe phenotype with additional features. Case presentation: translocation involving chromosomes 11p15.5 and 16p13.3) who developed cognitive decline and increasing dyskinetic movements in his late twenties. Biochemical investigations and exome sequencing did not elucidate an alternative explanation for this decline. Furthermore, neither the deletion on chromosome 16 nor the duplication on chromosome 11 encompassed genes that could explain the decline. Conclusion: While cognitive decline has not been previously reported in ATR-16 syndrome, this may be another feature of the condition that is subject to variable expressivity. Taking this together with the apparent increased prevalence of dementia in other neurodevelopmental conditions, we hypothesize that individuals with ATR-16 syndrome may be predisposed to early cognitive decline.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Case report · Consensus signal: Case report
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.011

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0040.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.257
Teacher spread0.250 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designCase report
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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