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Importantly, the frameshift variants harbor altered nuclear-localization sequences and exhibit reduced affinity for the nuclear-import receptor, Karyopherin-β2, which promotes their cytoplasmic accumulation in cells and in animal models that recapitulate the human pathology. Thus, we expand the phenotypes associated with hnRNPA2B1 to include a severe, early-onset disease reminiscent of OPMD, caused by a distinct class of frameshift variants that alter its nucleocytoplasmic transport dynamics.","journal":"medRxiv","year":2021,"id":218615,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":2,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9501,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2021-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":380209,"name":"Payam Mohassel","orcid":"0000-0001-5313-9514","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":325973,"name":"Sandra Donkervoort","orcid":"0000-0001-6399-1444","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":539723,"name":"Lin Guo","orcid":"0000-0002-2589-9513","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":648928,"name":"Kevin J. 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