A fetus with severe developmental defects caused by dominant-negative and hypomorphic ATG7 alleles.
Marion Carpentier, Nicolas Chatron, Isabelle Rouvet et al.
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Macroautophagy/autophagy is a fundamental process for neuronal homeostasis, yet its role in human development, notably brain development, remains poorly understood. Here, we report a fetus presenting severe developmental defects, including brain malformations, carrying two deleterious variants in ATG7 , a gene associated with severe neurodevelopmental disorders: maternally…