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NIH R01 · 2024

Molecular Basis of Coats Plus Disease

The Coats plus syndrome is a rare and life-threatening genetic disorder characterized by multi-system developmental defects that lead to bilateral exudative retinopathy, retinal telangiectasias, growth retardation, intracranial calcifications, bone abnormalities, gastrointestinal vascular ectasias, and common early-aging pathological features. Like many other developmental disorders, Coats plus is caused by defects in genes involved in maintaining global genome integrity. Specifically, it is caused by loss-of-function mutations in the human CTC1/STN1/TEN1 (CST) complex, which is a trimeric complex that preferentially binds to G-rich ssDNA or ss-ds DNA junctions and is critical for…

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