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Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia v6.3 SPG7 Ida Ertmanska changed review comment from: BIALLELIC CASES:
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.

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: BIALLELIC CASES:
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).
Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia v6.3 SPG7 Ida Ertmanska changed review comment from: Comment on list classification: As reviewed by Lauren Turton, an overwhelming majority of cases with SPG7-related spastic paraplegia / spinocerebellar ataxia have biallelic SPG7 variants. While several monoallelic cases have been described to date, the dominant inheritance was likely erroneously assigned due to technical study limitations (e.g., deep intronic SPG7 variant detectable only by WGS - PMID: 31854126), as well as possible digenic inheritance with variants in other spasticity-related genes / SPG7-interacting genes (emerging evidence for AFG3L2 in particular - PMID: 23065789, 33598982, 33774748). Heterozygous carriers of SPG7 variants in recessive pedigrees are usually unaffected. Based on available evidence, the mode of inheritance of inheritance for SPG7 should be changed to BIALLELIC , autosomal or pseudoautosomal.; to: Comment on list classification: As reviewed by Lauren Turton, an overwhelming majority of cases with SPG7-related spastic paraplegia / spinocerebellar ataxia have biallelic SPG7 variants. While several monoallelic cases have been described to date, the dominant inheritance was likely erroneously assigned due to technical study limitations (e.g., deep intronic SPG7 variant detectable only by WGS - PMID: 31854126), as well as possible digenic inheritance with variants in other spasticity-related genes / SPG7-interacting genes (emerging evidence for AFG3L2 in particular - PMID: 23065789, 33598982, 33774748). Heterozygous carriers of SPG7 variants in recessive pedigrees are usually unaffected. Based on available evidence, the mode of inheritance for SPG7 should be changed to BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal.
Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia v6.3 SPG7 Ida Ertmanska changed review comment from: Comment on list classification: As reviewed by Lauren Turton, an overwhelming majority of cases with SPG7-related spastic paraplegia / spinocerebellar ataxia have biallelic SPG7 variants. While several monoallelic cases have been described to date, the dominant inheritance was likely erroneously assigned due to technical study limitations (e.g., deep intronic SPG7 variant detectable only by WGS - PMID: 31854126), as well as possible digenic inheritance with variants in other spasticity-related genes / SPG7-interacting genes (emerging evidence for AFG3L2 in particular - PMID: 23065789, 33598982, 33774748). Based on available evidence, the mode of inheritance of inheritance for SPG7 should be changed to BIALLELIC , autosomal or pseudoautosomal.; to: Comment on list classification: As reviewed by Lauren Turton, an overwhelming majority of cases with SPG7-related spastic paraplegia / spinocerebellar ataxia have biallelic SPG7 variants. While several monoallelic cases have been described to date, the dominant inheritance was likely erroneously assigned due to technical study limitations (e.g., deep intronic SPG7 variant detectable only by WGS - PMID: 31854126), as well as possible digenic inheritance with variants in other spasticity-related genes / SPG7-interacting genes (emerging evidence for AFG3L2 in particular - PMID: 23065789, 33598982, 33774748). Heterozygous carriers of SPG7 variants in recessive pedigrees are usually unaffected. Based on available evidence, the mode of inheritance of inheritance for SPG7 should be changed to BIALLELIC , autosomal or pseudoautosomal.
Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia v6.3 SPG7 Ida Ertmanska Tag digenic tag was added to gene: SPG7.
Tag Q1_26_MOI tag was added to gene: SPG7.
Tag Q1_26_NHS_review tag was added to gene: SPG7.
Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia v6.3 SPG7 Ida Ertmanska commented on gene: SPG7: Comment on list classification: As reviewed by Lauren Turton, an overwhelming majority of cases with SPG7-related spastic paraplegia / spinocerebellar ataxia have biallelic SPG7 variants. While several monoallelic cases have been described to date, the dominant inheritance was likely erroneously assigned due to technical study limitations (e.g., deep intronic SPG7 variant detectable only by WGS - PMID: 31854126), as well as possible digenic inheritance with variants in other spasticity-related genes / SPG7-interacting genes (emerging evidence for AFG3L2 in particular - PMID: 23065789, 33598982, 33774748). Based on available evidence, the mode of inheritance of inheritance for SPG7 should be changed to BIALLELIC , autosomal or pseudoautosomal.
Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia v6.3 SPG7 Ida Ertmanska reviewed gene: SPG7: Rating: GREEN; Mode of pathogenicity: None; Publications: 22964162, 23065789, 24727571, 26506339, 31068484, 31854126, 32548275, 33598982, 33774748, 34405107, 39978794; Phenotypes: Spastic paraplegia 7, autosomal recessive, OMIM:607259, hereditary spastic paraplegia 7, MONDO:0011803; Mode of inheritance: BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia v6.3 SPG7 Lauren Turton reviewed gene: SPG7: Rating: GREEN; Mode of pathogenicity: None; Publications: ; Phenotypes: ; Mode of inheritance: BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal; Current diagnostic: yes
Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia v6.3 SPG7 Lauren Turton Deleted their review
Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia v6.3 SPG7 Lauren Turton reviewed gene: SPG7: Rating: GREEN; Mode of pathogenicity: None; Publications: ; Phenotypes: ; Mode of inheritance: MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted; Current diagnostic: yes
Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia v4.3 SPG7 Sarah Leigh changed review comment from: The mode of inheritance of this gene has been updated to SPG7 following NHS Genomic Medicine Service approval.; to: The mode of inheritance of this gene has been updated to BOTH monoallelic and biallelic (but BIALLELIC mutations cause a more SEVERE disease form), autosomal or pseudoautosomal, following NHS Genomic Medicine Service approval.
Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia v4.3 SPG7 Sarah Leigh changed review comment from: The mode of inheritance of this gene has been updated to XX following NHS Genomic Medicine Service approval.; to: The mode of inheritance of this gene has been updated to SPG7 following NHS Genomic Medicine Service approval.
Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia v4.3 SPG7 Eleanor Williams Tag Q2_23_MOI was removed from gene: SPG7.
Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia v3.19 SPG7 Sarah Leigh commented on gene: SPG7: The mode of inheritance of this gene has been updated to XX following NHS Genomic Medicine Service approval.
Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia v3.18 SPG7 Sarah Leigh Mode of inheritance for gene SPG7 was changed from BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal to BOTH monoallelic and biallelic (but BIALLELIC mutations cause a more SEVERE disease form), autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia v3.3 SPG7 Sarah Leigh Publications for gene: SPG7 were set to
Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia v3.2 SPG7 Sarah Leigh Tag Q2_23_MOI tag was added to gene: SPG7.
Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia v3.2 SPG7 Sarah Leigh reviewed gene: SPG7: Rating: ; Mode of pathogenicity: None; Publications: 9635427, 16534102, 17646629, 18200586, 20186691, 22571692; Phenotypes: ; Mode of inheritance: BOTH monoallelic and biallelic (but BIALLELIC mutations cause a more SEVERE disease form), autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia v3.2 SPG7 Sarah Leigh Phenotypes for gene: SPG7 were changed from Spastic paraplegia 7, autosomal recessive, 607259 to Spastic paraplegia 7, autosomal recessive, OMIM:607259; hereditary spastic paraplegia 7, MONDO:0011803
Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia v0.146 SPG7 Louise Daugherty Deleted their comment
Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia v0.54 SPG7 Louise Daugherty Source Yorkshire and North East GLH was added to SPG7.
Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia v0.53 SPG7 Nick Beauchamp reviewed gene: SPG7: Rating: GREEN; Mode of pathogenicity: None; Publications: ; Phenotypes: ; Mode of inheritance: BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal; Current diagnostic: yes
Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia v0.53 SPG7 Louise Daugherty commented on gene: SPG7: Review and rating submitted byJames Polke (Neurogenetics Laboratory,Institute of Neurology, London), unless specified in the review comment, on behalf of London North GLH for GMS Neurology specialist test group.
Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia v0.6 SPG7 Louise Daugherty reviewed gene: SPG7: Rating: AMBER; Mode of pathogenicity: ; Publications: ; Phenotypes: ; Mode of inheritance:
Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia v0.5 SPG7 James Polke reviewed gene: SPG7: Rating: GREEN; Mode of pathogenicity: ; Publications: ; Phenotypes: Spastic paraplegia 7, autosomal recessive, 607259; Mode of inheritance: BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia v0.4 SPG7 Louise Daugherty Source Expert Review Green was added to SPG7.
Mode of inheritance for gene SPG7 was changed from to BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Added phenotypes Spastic paraplegia 7, autosomal recessive, 607259 for gene: SPG7
Rating Changed from Red List (low evidence) to Green List (high evidence)
Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia v0.3 SPG7 Louise Daugherty Source NHS GMS was added to SPG7.
Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia v0.2 SPG7 Louise Daugherty gene: SPG7 was added
gene: SPG7 was added to Hereditary spastic paraplegia - adult onset. Sources: London North GLH
Mode of inheritance for gene: SPG7 was set to