Accepted Article Novel compound heterozygous and homozygous variants of laminin subunit β3 gene underlie non-Herlitz junctional epidermolysis bullosa in two paternal half-brothers from Saudi Arabia Short running title WES identifies two novel LAMB3 mutations Authors’ list Hams Saeed Al-Zahrani 1,2 , Saeed Al-Tala 3, * , Hussein Shaikh Ali Mohamoud 4 , Bandar Ali Al-Shehri 1 , Saeed Al-Fadhel 5 , Ali Al-Qurashi 5 , Ahmad Al-Bishri 5 , Jumana Yousuf Al-Aama 1, 2 , Changsoo Kang 6 , Regina C. Betz 7 , Musharraf Jelani 1,2 * . Authors’ affliations 1 Department of Genetic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 2 Princess Al-Jawhara Albrahim Center of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia 3 Department of Pediatrics, Genetic Unit, Armed Forces Hospital, Khamis Mushayt, Saudi Arabia 4 St George's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, University of London, London, United Kingdom 5 Pediatric Endocrinology, Armed Forces Hospital, Khamis Mushayt, Saudi Arabia 6 Department of Biology, Sungshin Women’s University, Seoul, Republic of Korea 7 Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany * Corresponding authors: Musharraf Jelani, Department of Genetic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Princess Al- Jawhara Albrahim Center of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Email mjelani@kau.edu.sa. Phone 00966- 12-6400000-20183 and Saeed Al-Tala, Department of Pediatrics, Genetic Unit, Armed Forces Hospital, Khamis Mushayt, Saudi Arabia. Email seeed99@gmail.com. Phone 00966-505724520 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1111/cga.12294