Instruct: Identify the main category of Medrxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Heterozygous and homozygous variants in STX1A cause a neurodevelopmental disorder with or without epilepsy The neuronal SNARE complex drive synaptic vesicle exocytosis. Therefore, one of its core proteins syntaxin 1A (STX1A) has long been suspected to play a role in neurodevelopmental disorders. We assembled eight individuals harboring rare variants in STX1A who present with a spectrum of intellectual, autism and epilepsy. Causative variants comprise a homozygous splice variant, three de novo missense variants and two inframe deletions of a single amino acid. We observed a phenotype mainly driven by epilepsy in the individuals with missense variants in contrast to intellectual disability and autistic behavior in individuals with single amino acid deletions and the splicing variant. In silico modeling of missense variants and single amino acid deletions show different impaired protein-protein interactions. We hypothesize the two phenotypic courses of affected individuals to be dependent on two different pathogenic mechanisms: (1) a weakened inhibitory STX1A-STXBP1 interaction due to missense variants results in an STX1A-related developmental epileptic encephalopathy and (2) a hampered SNARE complex formation due to inframe deletions causes an STX1A-related intellectual disability and autism phenotype.
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The categories of this paper are: care
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The categories of this paper are: geriatric
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The categories of this paper are: quality
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The categories of this paper are: diseases
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The categories of this paper are: rehabilitation
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The categories of this paper are: neurology
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The categories of this paper are: physical
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The categories of this paper are: orthopedics
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The categories of this paper are: intensive
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The categories of this paper are: palliative
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The categories of this paper are: nutrition
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The categories of this paper are: epidemiology
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The categories of this paper are: pediatrics
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The categories of this paper are: surgery
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The categories of this paper are: urology
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The categories of this paper are: critical