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We have identified four individuals with one of two\n                  <jats:italic>de novo<\/jats:italic>\n                  , heterozygous variants (NM_004655.4:c.196G&gt;A, p.(Glu66Lys) and c.199G&gt;A, p.(Gly67Arg)) in\n                  <jats:italic>AXIN2<\/jats:italic>\n                  whose presentations expand the phenotype of AXIN2-related disorders. In addition to ODCRCS features, these individuals have global developmental delay, microcephaly, and limb, ophthalmologic, and renal abnormalities. Structural modeling of these variants suggests that they disrupt AXIN2 binding to tankyrase, which regulates AXIN2 levels through PARsylation and subsequent proteasomal degradation. To test whether these variants produce a phenotype\n                  <jats:italic>in vivo<\/jats:italic>\n                  , we utilized an innovative prime editing N1 screen to phenotype heterozygous (p.E66K) mouse embryos, which were perinatal lethal with short palate and skeletal abnormalities, contrary to published viable\n                  <jats:italic>Axin2<\/jats:italic>\n                  null mouse models. Modeling of the p.E66K variant in the\n                  <jats:italic>Drosophila<\/jats:italic>\n                  wing revealed gain-of-function activity compared to reference AXIN2. However, the variant showed loss-of-function activity in the fly eye compared to reference AXIN2, suggesting that the mechanism by which p.E66K affects AXIN2 function is cell context-dependent. Together, our studies in humans, mice, and flies demonstrate that specific variants in the tankyrase-binding domain of AXIN2 are pathogenic, leading to phenotypic expansion with context-dependent effects on AXIN2 function and WNT signaling. 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