Taking into account that mutations in CSNK2A1, encoding the α subunit of CK2, were previously identified in patients with neurodevelopmental disorders and dysmorphic features, our study confirmed that the protein kinase CK2 plays a major role in brain, and showed that CSNK2, encoding the β subunit, is a novel ID gene.
We have performed WES for 4102 (1847 female; 2255 male) intellectual disability/developmental delay cases and we report five patients with a neurodevelopmental disorder associated with developmental delay, intellectual disability, behavioral problems, hypotonia, speech problems, microcephaly, pachygyria and dysmorphic features in whom we have identified de novo missense and canonical splice site mutations in CSNK2A1, the gene encoding CK2α, the catalytic subunit of protein kinase CK2, a ubiquitous serine/threonine kinase composed of two regulatory (β) and two catalytic (α and/or α') subunits.