Monogenic hearing loss
Gene: SPATA5Added new-gene-name tag, new approved HGNC gene symbol for SPATA5 is AFG2A.Created: 16 Oct 2023, 6:18 p.m. | Last Modified: 16 Oct 2023, 6:18 p.m.
Panel Version: 4.18
Comment on list classification: As per review, multiple published cases with congenital HL as well as ID and epileptic encephalopathy, progressive microcephaly where congenital HL may be initial presentation prior to onset of other problems.
Publication of a case where sibling of a typically affected patient has isolated SNHL (PMID: 28293831) and biallelic pathogenic variantsCreated: 11 Jun 2018, 11:20 a.m.
Tanaka et al PMID: 26299366 identified "14 individuals [from 10 families] with microcephaly, developmental delay, intellectual disability, hypotonia, spasticity, seizures, sensorineural hearing loss, cortical visual impairment, and rare autosomal-recessive predicted pathogenic variants" in SPATA5
Puussep et al PMID: 29343804 describes 5 further patients "with psychomotor developmental delay, microcephaly, epilepsy and hearing impairment, who were thought clinically to have a mitochondrial disease with subsequent whole-exome sequencing analysis detecting compound heterozygous variants in the SPATA5 gene"
Szczaluba et al PMID: 28293831 describes a family where a sibling has isolated sensorineural hearing loss and the same two pathogenic SPATA5 variants as her more typically affected sister.
In addition, typically affected individuals may present as congenital SNHL on newborn hearing screen prior to onset of seizures, microcephaly and intellectual disability.Created: 11 Jun 2018, 11:17 a.m.
Mode of inheritance
BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Phenotypes
Epilepsy, hearing loss, and mental retardation syndrome 616577
Publications
Variants in this GENE are reported as part of current diagnostic practice
Phenotypes for gene: SPATA5 were changed from Epilepsy, hearing loss, and mental retardation syndrome 616577 to Neurodevelopmental disorder with hearing loss, seizures, and brain abnormalities, OMIM:616577
Tag new-gene-name tag was added to gene: SPATA5.
Publications for gene: SPATA5 were set to 26299366; 29343804; 28293831
Gene: spata5 has been classified as Green List (High Evidence).
SPATA5 was added to Congenital hearing impairment (profound/severe) panel. Sources: Literature
SPATA5 was created by Rachel Jones