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863 different causes of Rett syndrome and lessons learned from data integration.
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  • Friederike Ehrhart,
  • Annika Jacobsen,
  • Maria Rigau,
  • Mattia Bosio,
  • Rajaram Kaliyaperumal,
  • Jeroen Laros,
  • Egon Willighagen,
  • Alfonso Valencia,
  • Marco Roos,
  • Salvador Capella-Gutierrez,
  • Curfs Leopold,
  • Chris Evelo
Friederike Ehrhart
Maastricht University

Corresponding Author:friederike.ehrhart@maastrichtuniversity.nl

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Annika Jacobsen
Leiden University Medical Centre
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Maria Rigau
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
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Mattia Bosio
Centre de Regulacio Genomica
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Rajaram Kaliyaperumal
Leiden University Medical Center
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Jeroen Laros
Leiden University Medical Center
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Egon Willighagen
Maastricht University
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Alfonso Valencia
Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC-CNS)
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Marco Roos
Leiden University Medical Centre
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Salvador Capella-Gutierrez
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
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Curfs Leopold
Maastricht University
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Chris Evelo
Maastricht University, Maastricht University
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Abstract

Rett syndrome (RTT) is a rare neurological disorder mostly caused by a genetic variation in MECP2. Various RTT causing and benign variants in MECP2 have been identified and due to the advent of sequencing in clinical diagnosis new variants are identified daily. Making new MECP2 variants and the related phenotypes available provides data for better understanding of disease mechanisms and faster identification of variants for diagnosis. This is, however, currently hampered by the lack of interoperability between genotype-phenotype databases. Here, we demonstrate on the example of MECP2 in RTT that by making the genotype-phenotype data more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR), we can facilitate prioritization and analysis of variants. In total, 10,968 MECP2 variants were successfully integrated. Among these variants 863 unique confirmed RTT causing and 209 unique confirmed benign variants were found. This dataset was used for comparison of pathogenicity predicting tools, protein consequences, and identification of ambiguous variants. Prediction tools generally recognised the RTT causing and benign variants, however, there was a broad range of overlap. 19 variants were identified, which were annotated as both, disease-causing and benign suggesting that there are more disease-causing factors than a mutation contributing to the disease development.