BBS10 encodes a rapidly evolving vertebrate-specific chaperonin-like protein.
Pathology
BBS10 is mutated in about 20% of BBS cases. Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a genetically heterogeneous ciliopathy. Nine BBS genes explain only 40-50% of the total mutational load.
In zebrafish, mild suppression of bbs10 exacerbated the phenotypes of other bbs morphants.
References
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