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Here, we describe a girl presenting with borderline short stature and mild disproportion due to acro- and mesomelic shortening of the limbs. Radiographic examination revealed shortening of the radius and ulna, mild brachydactyly, absence of iliac flaring and metaphyseal alterations of the long bones, and biconcave appearance of the femoral necks and II-IV metacarpals, and an elongated styloid process of the ulna. Using WGS, we identified two novel variants in the\n                    <jats:italic>PRKG2<\/jats:italic>\n                    gene: a frameshift variant (NM_006259.3:c.1074del (p.Ala359LeufsTer24)) and a missense variant (NM_006259.3:c.1630G&amp;gt;T (p.Asp544Tyr)). Functional analysis unveiled a unique dual pathogenic mechanism: the missense variant creates a cryptic splice site, resulting in two aberrant protein products - an in-frame deletion and a missense substitution. We hypothesize that these alterations cause a partial, rather than a complete, loss of protein function, which may account for the patient\u2019s attenuated clinical phenotype.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fgene.2025.1708985","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,7]],"date-time":"2026-01-07T22:10:13Z","timestamp":1767823813000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Case Report: Dual pathogenic mechanism of a PRKG2 missense variant underlies an attenuated phenotype of acromesomelic dysplasia"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Daria","family":"Akimova","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tatiana","family":"Markova","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Maria","family":"Orlova","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Vladimir","family":"Kenis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mikhail","family":"Skoblov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1250","DOI":"10.1038\/s41431-023-01472-z","article-title":"Two new patients with acromesomelic dysplasia, PRKG2 type-identification and characterization of the first missense variant","volume":"32","author":"Akgun-Dogan","year":"2024","journal-title":"Eur. 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