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  1. Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) is an autosomal dominant disease that interferes with the formation of arteries. The ENG gene encodes for the protein endoglin which is used to properly develop and remodel arteries. The removal of endoglin forms telangiectasias that cause bleeding from the nose and vital organs. This study investigates the impact of one of the many variants of uncertain significance of ENG associated with HHT. The missense swap of alanine for valine at position 218 (Ala218Val) was characterized through computational metrics from in silico pathogenicity prediction tools, conservation analysis, and molecular dynamics simulation (MDS). The structural residue is highly conserved over multiple species and buried. The missense swap resulted in a difference in movement from the wild type according to MDS in a simulated aqueous environment. Therefore, it is predicted to be likely pathogenic. 
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  3. Parkinson’s disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease which is caused by a lack of dopamine in the brain. Parkinson 22 is a form of Parkinson’s disease caused by variations in the coiled-coil-helix-coiled-coil-helix domain containing 2 (CHCHD2) protein. This study investigates an aspartic acid-to-alanine swap on amino acid position 130 (D130A) of the CHCHD2 protein. We have employed protein modeling, conservation analysis, and molecular dynamics simulations to gain an understanding of the effects of the D130A variant on CHCHD2 protein structure and movement. 
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