Fig. 4.

mRNA analysis of patients carrying variant c.686-7C > G. Capillary electrophoresis was performed on PCR products amplified by primers annealing to exons 4 and 7. a Healthy control shows only one wild type peak. b Both patient sample results show 2 peaks—reference transcript peak and a peak corresponding to a 6 bp longer transcript using a de novo created acceptor splice site. Aberrant and normal transcript proportion was roughly equal, which corresponds to complete impairment caused by the variant. The variant preserves a reading frame and leads to incorporation of additional two amino acids (proline-alanine) into the polypeptide chain