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Hereditary neuropathy or pain disorder v7.32 SPG7 Ida Ertmanska changed review comment from: Many homozygous and compound heterozygous cases reported in large spastic paraplegia cohorts, with variable symptom severity and age of onset (childhood to late adulthood).
Recurrent SPG7 variants:
SPG7: c.1529C>T, p.Ala510Val has MAF = 0.007265 in gnomAD v4.1.0 (European population), with 44 total homozygotes reported;
SPG7: c.1454_1462del, p.Arg485_Glu487del - highest frequency in gnomAD v4.1.0 = 0.0006758 (Finnish population), no homozygotes;
SPG7: c.233T>A, p.Leu78Ter - MAF = 0.002778 (South Asian population), 5 homozygotes reported.
SPG7: c.1045G>A, p.Gly349Ser -MAF = 0.002041 (European), 3 homozygotes in gnomAD.

PMID: 39978794 Jimoh et al., 2025 - Hungarian cohort - identified 25 biallelic and 33 monoallelic cases. The most common variant was p.Leu78Ter (N = 23), followed by p. Ala510Val (N = 21).

PMID: 34405107 Campins-Romeu et al., 2021 - Caucasian man with multifocal dystonia with prominent bulbar and cervical involvement; SPG7 c.1529C > T(p.Ala510Val) and c.1715C > T(p.Ala572Val) - confirmed in trans

PMID: 33598982 Estiar et al., 2021 - WES study of a Canadian cohort (585 HSP patients from 372 families and 1175 controls);
p.(Ala510Val) was found in 3.7% of index patients vs 0.8% controls. Identified 4 heterozygous SPG7 variant carriers with an additional pathogenic variant in known spasticity genes (BSCL2, TBCE, SPAST), as well as four families with heterozygous variants in SPG7 and SPG7-interacting genes (CACNA1A, AFG3L2, and MORC2).
FSP-04-053: Patient with spinocerebellar ataxia with AFG3L2: c.2114T>C, p.(Ile705Thr) and SPG7: c.376+1G>T.
FSP-01-190: Patient with spinocerebellar ataxia with CACNA1A:c.4981C>T, p.Arg1661Cys and SPG7: p.Ala510Val.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.05.24312261v1 - 2025 preprint from the same group: Digenic inheritance of mutations in SPG7 and AFG3L2 causes motor neuron and cerebellar disorders


PMID: 31854126 Verdura et al., 2019 - 'A deep intronic splice variant advises reexamination of presumably dominant SPG7 Cases'
Patient with Hereditary spastic paraplegia, harbouring variants in SPG7: (c.2195T> C; p.Leu732Pro) - found by WES, and a deep intronic variant (c.286 + 853A>G) - variant activates a cryptic splice site; found by WGS. Western blot showed decreased SPG7 levels in patient's fibroblasts.

PMID: 31068484 Coarelli et al., 2019
241 spastic paraplegia cases with SPG7 variants. LoF variants correlate with spasticity-predominant phenotype. Patients with at least one p.Ala510Val variant showed a later onset and more frequent cerebellar ataxia.

PMID: 26506339 Thal et al., 2015 - Caucasian man with HSP with homozygous p.Ala510Val, affected sister also homozygous, heterozygous children unaffected. Method: WGS

PMID: 22964162 van Gassen et al., 2012 - Dutch cohort, 49 patients with homozygous or compound heterozygous SPG7 variants.

MONOALLELIC CASES:
PMID: 33774748 Bogdanova-Mihaylova et al., 2021
32 symptomatic individuals from 25 Irish families. 3 individuals reported to have heterozygous variants in SPG7; one of them subsequently found to have intronic repeat expansions in RFC1 (associated with Cerebellar ataxia, neuropathy, and vestibular areflexia syndrome in OMIM). Heterozygous first-degree relatives of patients with recessive SPG7 variants were asymptomatic.

PMID: 32548275 Charif et al., 2020
Identified 7 new heterozygous SPG7 variants in cases with isolated optic atrophy. All patients with SPG7 presented optic disk pallor and accordingly, reduced retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL), though visual impairment was mild in all patients. Method: targeted sequencing panel of 22 genes.

PMID: 24727571 Pfeffer et al., 2014: testing on 68 patients with Progressive external ophthalmoplegia (PEO), discovered 9 patients with compound heterozygous and 6 with heterozygous variants in SPG7. Of the 6 heterozygotes, 4/6 had PEO, 4/6 had ataxia and/or spasticity, 1/6 noted to have cerebellar atrophy. 3/6 patients were heterozygous for p.Ala510Val, with variable severity and age of onset (4-60 years old). Method: WES.

PMID: 23065789 Klebe et al., 2012
Screened 135 unrelated index cases. Seq method: AFG3L2 and SPG7 sequencing only. p.Ala510Val was the most commonly detected SPG7 mutation (65%). Mostly biallelic HSP cases.
3 relatives of compound heterozygous patients, harbouring heterozygote SPG7 mutations, had mild, late-onset cerebellar signs and atrophy, or peripheral neuropathy, but no spasticity of the lower limbs.

Patient 25 - isolated index HSP case - heterozygous for SPG7: c.1457G>A, p.Arg486Gln - MAF in gnomAD v4 = 0.01031 (European population), 73 total homozygotes reported.

Novel missense SPG7 mutation at the heterozygous state (SPG7:c.1232A>C, p.Asp411Ala) was identified as the cause of isolated autosomal dominant optic neuropathy in a large family - variant not reported in gnomAD v4.1.0.

SPG7 is associated with Spastic paraplegia 7, autosomal recessive MIM:607259 in OMIM (accessed 6th Jan 2026).; to: Many homozygous and compound heterozygous cases reported in large spastic paraplegia cohorts, with variable symptom severity and age of onset (childhood to late adulthood).
Recurrent SPG7 variants:
SPG7: c.1529C>T, p.Ala510Val has MAF = 0.007265 in gnomAD v4.1.0 (European population), with 44 total homozygotes reported;
SPG7: c.1454_1462del, p.Arg485_Glu487del - highest frequency in gnomAD v4.1.0 = 0.0006758 (Finnish population), no homozygotes;
SPG7: c.233T>A, p.Leu78Ter - MAF = 0.002778 (South Asian population), 5 homozygotes reported.
SPG7: c.1045G>A, p.Gly349Ser -MAF = 0.002041 (European), 3 homozygotes in gnomAD.

PMID: 39978794 Jimoh et al., 2025 - Hungarian cohort - identified 25 biallelic and 33 monoallelic cases. The most common variant was p.Leu78Ter (N = 23), followed by p. Ala510Val (N = 21).

PMID: 34405107 Campins-Romeu et al., 2021 - Caucasian man with multifocal dystonia with prominent bulbar and cervical involvement; SPG7 c.1529C > T(p.Ala510Val) and c.1715C > T(p.Ala572Val) - confirmed in trans

PMID: 33598982 Estiar et al., 2021 - WES study of a Canadian cohort (585 HSP patients from 372 families and 1175 controls);
p.(Ala510Val) was found in 3.7% of index patients vs 0.8% controls. Identified 4 heterozygous SPG7 variant carriers with an additional pathogenic variant in known spasticity genes (BSCL2, TBCE, SPAST), as well as four families with heterozygous variants in SPG7 and SPG7-interacting genes (CACNA1A, AFG3L2, and MORC2).
FSP-04-053: Patient with spinocerebellar ataxia with AFG3L2: c.2114T>C, p.(Ile705Thr) and SPG7: c.376+1G>T.
FSP-01-190: Patient with spinocerebellar ataxia with CACNA1A:c.4981C>T, p.Arg1661Cys and SPG7: p.Ala510Val.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.05.24312261v1 - 2025 preprint from the same group: Digenic inheritance of mutations in SPG7 and AFG3L2 causes motor neuron and cerebellar disorders


PMID: 31854126 Verdura et al., 2019 - 'A deep intronic splice variant advises reexamination of presumably dominant SPG7 Cases'
Patient with Hereditary spastic paraplegia, harbouring variants in SPG7: (c.2195T> C; p.Leu732Pro) - found by WES, and a deep intronic variant (c.286 + 853A>G) - variant activates a cryptic splice site; found by WGS. Western blot showed decreased SPG7 levels in patient's fibroblasts.

PMID: 31068484 Coarelli et al., 2019
241 spastic paraplegia cases with SPG7 variants. LoF variants correlate with spasticity-predominant phenotype. Patients with at least one p.Ala510Val variant showed a later onset and more frequent cerebellar ataxia.

PMID: 26506339 Thal et al., 2015 - Caucasian man with HSP with homozygous p.Ala510Val, affected sister also homozygous, heterozygous children unaffected. Method: WGS

PMID: 22964162 van Gassen et al., 2012 - Dutch cohort, 49 patients with homozygous or compound heterozygous SPG7 variants.

MONOALLELIC CASES:
PMID: 33774748 Bogdanova-Mihaylova et al., 2021
32 symptomatic individuals from 25 Irish families. 3 individuals reported to have heterozygous variants in SPG7; one of them subsequently found to have intronic repeat expansions in RFC1 (associated with Cerebellar ataxia, neuropathy, and vestibular areflexia syndrome in OMIM). Heterozygous first-degree relatives of patients with recessive SPG7 variants were asymptomatic.

PMID: 32548275 Charif et al., 2020
Identified 7 new heterozygous SPG7 variants in cases with isolated optic atrophy. All patients with SPG7 presented optic disk pallor and accordingly, reduced retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL), though visual impairment was mild in all patients. Method: targeted sequencing panel of 22 genes.

PMID: 24727571 Pfeffer et al., 2014: testing on 68 patients with Progressive external ophthalmoplegia (PEO), discovered 9 patients with compound heterozygous and 6 with heterozygous variants in SPG7. Of the 6 heterozygotes, 4/6 had PEO, 4/6 had ataxia and/or spasticity, 1/6 noted to have cerebellar atrophy. 3/6 patients were heterozygous for p.Ala510Val, with variable severity and age of onset (4-60 years old). Method: WES.

PMID: 23065789 Klebe et al., 2012
Screened 135 unrelated index cases. Seq method: AFG3L2 and SPG7 sequencing only. p.Ala510Val was the most commonly detected SPG7 mutation (65%). Mostly biallelic HSP cases.
3 relatives of compound heterozygous patients, harbouring heterozygote SPG7 mutations, had mild, late-onset cerebellar signs and atrophy, or peripheral neuropathy, but no spasticity of the lower limbs.

Patient 25 - isolated index HSP case - heterozygous for SPG7: c.1457G>A, p.Arg486Gln - MAF in gnomAD v4 = 0.01031 (European population), 73 total homozygotes reported.

Novel missense SPG7 mutation at the heterozygous state (SPG7:c.1232A>C, p.Asp411Ala) was identified as the cause of isolated autosomal dominant optic neuropathy in a large family - variant not reported in gnomAD v4.1.0.

SPG7 is associated with Spastic paraplegia 7, autosomal recessive, OMIM:607259 (accessed 8th Jan 2026). Entry for Spastic paraplegia 7 in GeneReviews (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1107/) mentions that the possibility of autosomal dominant inheritance remains controversial. SPG7 link to SPG7-related spastic paraplegia (biallelic_autosomal) is classified as definitive on the Gene2Phenotype Eye disorders panel.
Hereditary neuropathy or pain disorder v7.1 RFC1 Lauren Turton Deleted their review
Hereditary neuropathy or pain disorder v7.1 RFC1 Lauren Turton reviewed gene: RFC1: Rating: GREEN; Mode of pathogenicity: None; Publications: 36289003, 36478048, 35883251, 36250766, 36524104; Phenotypes: Cerebellar ataxia, neuropathy, and vestibular areflexia syndrome (OMIM: 614575); Mode of inheritance: BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Hereditary neuropathy or pain disorder v6.167 RFC1_AAGGG Sarah Leigh Publications for STR: RFC1_AAGGG were set to 30926972; 35883251; 36250766; 36289003; 36524104; 36478048
Hereditary neuropathy or pain disorder v6.166 RFC1_AAGGG Sarah Leigh edited their review of STR: RFC1_AAGGG: Added comment: Pathogenicity at the RFC1_AAGGG repeat locus can result from the biallelic replacement of the benign AAAAG repeat with a variable number of AAGGG repeats (PMID: 30926972; 32040566). Furthermore, biallelic expansions of (AAAAG)exp/(AAAGG)exp, (AAAAG)exp/(AAGGG)exp or (AAAGG)exp/(AAGGG)exp were not pathogenic, therefore, it is the biallelic expansions of AAGGG that is pathogenic (PMID: 30926972). An additional pathogenic biallelic expansion :RFC1_ACAGG, was seen in was seen in two Asia-Pacific CANVAS families and a Japanese case (PMID: 33103729, 35355059).; Changed publications to: 30926972, 35883251, 36250766, 36289003, 36524104, 36478048, 32040566, 33103729, 35355059
Hereditary neuropathy or pain disorder v6.166 RFC1_AAGGG Sarah Leigh STR: RFC1_AAGGG was added
STR: RFC1_AAGGG was added to Hereditary neuropathy or pain disorder. Sources: Literature
STR, NGS Not Validated tags were added to STR: RFC1_AAGGG.
Mode of inheritance for STR: RFC1_AAGGG was set to BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Publications for STR: RFC1_AAGGG were set to 30926972; 35883251; 36250766; 36289003; 36524104; 36478048
Phenotypes for STR: RFC1_AAGGG were set to Cerebellar ataxia, neuropathy, and vestibular areflexia syndrome, OMIM: 614575
Review for STR: RFC1_AAGGG was set to GREEN
Added comment: RFC1 transcribed from the reverse strand, which means that the repeated sequence is the reverse compliment of the forward strand sequence.

RFC1_AAGGG is on https://gnomad.broadinstitute.org/short-tandem-repeats?dataset=gnomad_r4

RFC1_AAGGG is on https://stripy.org/database

RFC1_AARRG is on DRAGON 4.02.

The coordinates of the sequence repeats shown above were obtained from DRAGON 4.02 and https://gnomad.broadinstitute.org/short-tandem-repeats?dataset=gnomad_r4
The coordinates of the sequence repeats from https://stripy.org/database were 4:39348424-39348485 (hg38)
The non-pathogenic and pathogenic ranges of the sequence repeats shown above were obtained from: https://gnomad.broadinstitute.org/short-tandem-repeats?dataset=gnomad_r4
And https://stripy.org/database

There is enough evidence for this STR to be green on this panel.

This STR has not been approved by NHS STR working group and is not NGS Not Validated
Sources: Literature
Hereditary neuropathy or pain disorder v3.56 RFC1 Sarah Leigh reviewed gene: RFC1: Rating: RED; Mode of pathogenicity: None; Publications: ; Phenotypes: ; Mode of inheritance: None
Hereditary neuropathy or pain disorder v3.27 RFC1 Sarah Leigh Phenotypes for gene: RFC1 were changed from Cerebellar ataxia, neuropathy, and vestibular areflexia syndrome, OMIM:614575; cerebellar ataxia, neuropathy, and vestibular areflexia syndrome, MONDO:0013809; chronic idiopathic axonal polyneuropathy; chronic polyneuropathy, MONDO:0003335 to Cerebellar ataxia, neuropathy, and vestibular areflexia syndrome, OMIM:614575; cerebellar ataxia with neuropathy and bilateral vestibular areflexia syndrome, MONDO:0044720
Hereditary neuropathy or pain disorder v3.26 RFC1 Sarah Leigh Publications for gene: RFC1 were set to 30926972; 31824583; 32851396; 32582864; 33969391
Hereditary neuropathy or pain disorder v3.25 RFC1 Joseph Shaw reviewed gene: RFC1: Rating: GREEN; Mode of pathogenicity: Other; Publications: 35883251, 36250766, 36289003, 36524104, 36478048; Phenotypes: Neuropathy; Mode of inheritance: BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Hereditary neuropathy or pain disorder v1.68 RFC1 Eleanor Williams commented on gene: RFC1: Copied this gene from the Hereditary ataxia - adult onset panel so that it is noted that the STR associated with this gene is relevant to the panel, NOT SNV/indels or deletions covering this gene. In PMID: 33969391 - Curro et al 2021 - they found that 43 patients (34%) with sensory neuropathy had biallelic AAGGG repeat expansions in RFC1and in none with sensory-motor neuropathy.
Hereditary neuropathy or pain disorder v1.68 RFC1 Eleanor Williams Entity copied from Hereditary ataxia - adult onset v2.134
Hereditary neuropathy or pain disorder v1.68 RFC1 Eleanor Williams gene: RFC1 was added
gene: RFC1 was added to Hereditary neuropathy NOT PMP22 copy number. Sources: Expert Review Red,Expert Review
STR tags were added to gene: RFC1.
Mode of inheritance for gene: RFC1 was set to BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Publications for gene: RFC1 were set to 30926972; 31824583; 32851396; 32582864; 33969391
Phenotypes for gene: RFC1 were set to Cerebellar ataxia, neuropathy, and vestibular areflexia syndrome, OMIM:614575; cerebellar ataxia, neuropathy, and vestibular areflexia syndrome, MONDO:0013809; chronic idiopathic axonal polyneuropathy; chronic polyneuropathy, MONDO:0003335
Mode of pathogenicity for gene: RFC1 was set to Other