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Record W4412689077 · doi:10.1093/brain/awaf273

Variants in <i>DENND2B</i> are associated with vulnerability for neurodevelopmental impairment, psychosis and catatonia

2025· article· en· W4412689077 on OpenAlexafffund
Harsha Murthy, Ny Hoang, Jamie C Stark, Sunny Cui, Emanuela Pannia, Chung Ting Tsoi, Simon J. Harris, Lauren Verhaeghe, Sydney Scholten, Danielle Baribeau, Jane Summers, Gregory Costain, Thanuja Selvanayagam, Jennifer Howe, Moira Lewis, Theresa Brunet, S Rieger, Jill A. Rosenfeld, William J. Craigen, Lindsay C. Burrage, Michelle R. Christie, Deborah Baldwin, Ingrid M. Wentzensen, Boris Keren, Benjamin Cogné, Bertrand Isidor, Alexandra Afenjar, Reem M. Elshafie, Lailá Bastaki, Sumaya Alkanderi, Kenneth A. Myers, Scott Demarest, Katie Angione, Megan Abbott, Philippe M. Campeau, James J. Dowling, Roberto Mendoza‐Londono, Stephen W. Scherer, Ashish R. Deshwar, Jacob Vorstman

Bibliographic record

VenueBrain · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicGenomics and Rare Diseases
Canadian institutionsCentre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-JustineMcGill University Health CentreHolland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation HospitalBC Children's HospitalUniversity of TorontoHospital for Sick Children
FundersNational Institute of Neurological Disorders and StrokeNational Institutes of HealthEunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human DevelopmentSickkids Research Institute
KeywordsCatatoniaPsychosisIntellectual disabilityNeurodevelopmental disorderZebrafishIn silicoPsychologyEpilepsyBiologyNeurosciencePsychiatrySchizophrenia (object-oriented programming)GeneticsAutism

Abstract

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DENND2B is a DENN (differentially expressed in normal and neoplastic cells) domain-containing protein that has important roles in regulating the cell cycle, cell division and ciliogenesis, but to date has not been associated with any human disease. Here, we report on 11 individuals with monoallelic variants in DENND2B with a shared constellation of features and perform in silico and in vivo zebrafish modelling of the DENND2B variants identified in these patients. Features shared among these patients include developmental delay, intellectual disability and psychiatric/behavioural concerns, and episodes of psychosis and/or catatonia. Additional features common to our cohort include epilepsy, muscle weakness/hypotonia and a wide range of congenital anomalies across different organ systems. Identified patient variants affect well-conserved amino acids and are predicted to be deleterious to DENND2B function by in silico prediction algorithms and structural modelling. Nine of the 10 observed patient variants were modelled in zebrafish and confirmed to result in loss of DENND2B function. Altogether, these findings suggest that monoallelic loss-of-function variants in DENND2B cause a novel autosomal dominant neurodevelopmental disorder with variable vulnerability to psychosis and/or catatonia.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.100
Threshold uncertainty score0.353

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.247
Teacher spread0.241 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
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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