Table 2. Variant-carrying genes that were common to all affected individuals.

Gene name	Number of variants	Cases carrying one or more variants	Exclusion criteria
WNK1	54	100%	Alignment mistake
MUC6	40	100%	Mucin gene
MUC2	19	100%	Mucin gene
NBPF15	11	100%	Many novel variants, also present in controls
ZNF384	1	100%	Bad reference
OR4C45	1	100%	Many novel variants, also present in controls
MUC17	91	90%	Mucin gene
MUC16	26	90%	Mucin gene
TTN	18	90%	Low coverage regions
ZNF492/ZNF98	16	90%	Many novel variants, also present in controls
GOGAL6L1	14	90%	Not well annotated gene
PCMTD1	8	90%	Many novel variants, also present in controls
C11orf40	3	90%	Suspected false positive change in dbSNP
KIAA1751	2	90%	Suspected false positive change in dbSNP