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Here we report siblings of a consanguineous Pakistani family with biallelic variants in the <jats:italic>ARHGEF17<\/jats:italic> gene associated with a neurodevelopmental disorder with intellectual disability, speech delay and motor dysfunction but not aneurysms. Cranial MRI performed in one patient revealed generalized brain atrophy with an enlarged ventricular system, thin corpus callosum and microcephaly. Whole exome sequencing followed by Sanger sequencing in two of the affected individuals revealed a homozygous missense variant (g.11:73021307, c.1624C&amp;gt;T (NM_014786.4), p.R542W) in the <jats:italic>ARHGEF17<\/jats:italic> gene. This variant is in a highly conserved DCLK1 phosphorylation consensus site (I\/L\/V\/F\/M]RRXX[pS\/pT][I\/L\/M\/V\/F) of the protein. 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