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Splicing analysis of blood samples and CRISPR-edited cells representing different degrees of functional loss of RBM10 demonstrated a pattern of more exon inclusion in response to increased loss of RBM10 function. More inclusion was correlated with increasing phenotype severity. Functional studies of missense variants from the different phenotypic groups confirm this genotype-phenotype correlation and show that different molecular mechanisms can explain the underlying pathological alterations in RBM10 protein function. Interestingly, we show that some missense variants in the RNA binding, RRM2 domain of RBM10 alter RBM10 activity from splicing inhibition to stimulation, likely due to altered RNA binding characteristics. 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