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Bilateral congenital or childhood onset cataracts v2.17 GALM Ivone Leong Tag watchlist tag was added to gene: GALM.
Bilateral congenital or childhood onset cataracts v2.17 GALM Ivone Leong Classified gene: GALM as Amber List (moderate evidence)
Bilateral congenital or childhood onset cataracts v2.17 GALM Ivone Leong Added comment: Comment on list classification: New gene added by Zornitza Stark. Based on the available evidence there is currently not enough evidence to support a gene-disease assocation; therefore, this gene has been given an Amber rating.
Bilateral congenital or childhood onset cataracts v2.17 GALM Ivone Leong Gene: galm has been classified as Amber List (Moderate Evidence).
Bilateral congenital or childhood onset cataracts v2.16 GALM Ivone Leong Phenotypes for gene: GALM were changed from type IV galactosaemia to Galactosemia IV, 618881
Bilateral congenital or childhood onset cataracts v2.6 GALM Zornitza Stark gene: GALM was added
gene: GALM was added to Cataracts. Sources: Expert list
Mode of inheritance for gene: GALM was set to BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Publications for gene: GALM were set to 30451973; 30910422
Phenotypes for gene: GALM were set to type IV galactosaemia
Review for gene: GALM was set to AMBER
Added comment: Homozygous and compound heterozygous variants (missense, nonsense and frameshift) found in 8 Japanese patients from unrelated families with unexplained galactosaemia. (No variants in GALT, GALK1, and GALE). This is therefore type IV galactosaemia. In vitro expression analysis and enzyme activity assay of the patients’ peripheral blood mononuclear cells showed total lack of or compromised expression of GALM protein. Loss-of-function mechanism. One homozygote for one of these variants p.(Gly142Arg) in gnomAD (African population). (Wada, Y. et al 2019; PMID: 30451973) In vitro expression assay and an enzyme activity assay of 67 GALM variants, taken from ExAc database (missense, nonsense, frameshift and splice). 30 variants concluded to be pathogenic due to no protein expression or faint expression. 5 variants with mildly lower levels were determined as likely pathogenic. All concluded to be loss-of-function mechanism. Incidence of galactosaemia by GALM deficiency is comparable to that of other galactosaemias. Carrier frequency and incidence was estimated for different populations. (Iwasawa, S. et al. (2019); PMID: 30910422)

Note only two of the reported individuals had cataracts.
Sources: Expert list