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Archetypal disease-causing mutations are cysteine-affecting variants within the 34 epidermal growth factor-like repeat (EGFr) region of the Notch3 extracellular subunit. Cysteine-sparing variants and variants outside the EGFr coding region associated with CADASIL phenotype have been reported. However, the linkage between untypical variants and CADASIL is unclear. In this study, we investigated the spectrum of\n                    <jats:italic>NOTCH3<\/jats:italic>\n                    variants in a cohort of 38 probands from unrelated families diagnosed as CADASIL. All coding exons of the\n                    <jats:italic>NOTCH3<\/jats:italic>\n                    gene were analyzed, and clinical data were retrospectively studied. We identified 23 different\n                    <jats:italic>NOTCH3<\/jats:italic>\n                    variants including 14 cysteine-affecting pathogenic variants, five cysteine-sparing pathogenic variants, two reported cysteine-sparing variants of unknown significance (VUS), and two novel VUS outside EGFr region. In retrospective studies of clinical data, we found that patients carrying cysteine-sparing pathogenic variants showed later symptom onset (51.36 \u00b1 7.06 vs. 44.96 \u00b1 8.82,\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    = 0.023) and milder temporal lobe involvement (1.50 \u00b1 1.74 vs. 3.11 \u00b1 2.32,\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    = 0.027) than patients carrying cysteine-affecting pathogenic variants. Our findings suggested that untypical variants comprise a significant part of\n                    <jats:italic>NOTCH3<\/jats:italic>\n                    variants and may be associated with a distinctive phenotype.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fgene.2021.705284","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,15]],"date-time":"2021-07-15T12:09:54Z","timestamp":1626350994000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":30,"title":["NOTCH3 Variants and Genotype-Phenotype Features in Chinese CADASIL Patients"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Yacen","family":"Hu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Qiying","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yafang","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Fang","family":"Yi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Haiyun","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lingyan","family":"Yao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yun","family":"Tian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nina","family":"Xie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mengchuan","family":"Luo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhiqin","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xinxin","family":"Liao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hongwei","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lin","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"248","DOI":"10.1038\/nmeth0410-248","article-title":"A method and server for predicting damaging missense mutations.","volume":"7","author":"Adzhubei","year":"2010","journal-title":"Nat. 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