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Mutations in genes involved in DCV regulation, other than CCDC186, have been described in patients with neurodevelopmental disorders. To date, only one patient, within a large sequencing study of 1000 cases, and a single case report with variants in CCDC186, had previously been described. However, no functional studies in any of these two cases had been performed. We identified three patients from two gypsy families, unrelated to each other, with mutations in the CCDC186 gene. Clinically, all patients presented with seizures, frontotemporal atrophy, hypomyelination, recurrent infections, and endocrine disturbances such as severe non-ketotic hypoglycemia. Low levels of cortisol, insulin, or growth hormone could only be verified in one patient. All of them had a neonatal onset and died between 7 months and 4 years of age. Whole exome sequencing identified a homozygous variant in the CCDC186 gene (c.2215C&gt;T, p.Arg739Ter) in the index patients of both families. Protein expression studies demonstrated that CCDC186 was almost undetectable in fibroblasts and muscle tissue. These observations correlated with the transcriptomic analysis performed in fibroblasts in one of the patients, which showed a significant reduction of CCDC186 mRNA levels. Our study provides functional evidence that mutations in this gene have a pathogenic effect on the protein and reinforces CCDC186 as a new disease-associated gene. 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