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Carrier females in <jats:italic>ARX<\/jats:italic> families are usually asymptomatic, but ID has been reported in some of them, as well as in others with de novo variants. In this study, we collected the clinical and molecular data of 10 unpublished female patients with de novo <jats:italic>ARX<\/jats:italic> pathogenic variants and reviewed the data of 63 females from the literature with either de novo variants (n=10), inherited variants (n=33) or variants of unknown inheritance (n=20). Altogether, the clinical spectrum of females with heterozygous pathogenic <jats:italic>ARX<\/jats:italic> variants is broad: 42.5% are asymptomatic, 16.4% have isolated agenesis of the corpus callosum (ACC) or mild symptoms (learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, drug-responsive epilepsy) without ID, whereas 41% present with a severe phenotype (ie, ID or developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (DEE)). The ID\/DEE phenotype was significantly more prevalent in females carrying de novo variants (75%, n=15\/20) versus in those carrying inherited variants (27.3%, n=9\/33). ACC was observed in 66.7% (n=24\/36) of females who underwent a brain MRI. 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