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Somatic mutations in the STAG2 sequence have been associated with various types of cancer, while congenital variants have been linked to developmental disorders such as Mullegama\u2013Klein\u2013Martinez syndrome, X-linked holoprosencephaly-13, and Cornelia de Lange syndrome. In the cohesin complex, the direct interaction of STAG2 with DNA and with NIPBL, RAD21, and CTCF proteins has been described. The function of STAG2 within the complex is still unknown, but it is related to its DNA binding capacity and is modulated by its binding to the other three proteins. Every missense variant described for STAG2 is located in regions involved in one of these interactions. In the present work, we model the structure of 12 missense variants described for STAG2, as well as two other variants of NIPBl and two of RAD21 located at STAG2 interaction zone, and then analyze their behavior through molecular dynamic simulations, comparing them with the same simulation of the wild-type protein. 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