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Intellectual disability - microarray and sequencing v3.1192 EPHA7 Ivone Leong Tag watchlist tag was added to gene: EPHA7.
Intellectual disability - microarray and sequencing v3.1192 EPHA7 Ivone Leong Classified gene: EPHA7 as Amber List (moderate evidence)
Intellectual disability - microarray and sequencing v3.1192 EPHA7 Ivone Leong Added comment: Comment on list classification: New gene added by Konstantinos Varvagiannis (Other). This gene is not associated with a phenotype in OMIM or Gene2Phenotype. This gene has been given an Amber rating based on expert review.
Intellectual disability - microarray and sequencing v3.1192 EPHA7 Ivone Leong Gene: epha7 has been classified as Amber List (Moderate Evidence).
Intellectual disability - microarray and sequencing v3.1191 EPHA7 Ivone Leong Phenotypes for gene: EPHA7 were changed from Global developmental delay; Intellectual disability; Delayed speech and language development; Behavioral abnormality to Global developmental delay; Intellectual disability, MONDO:0001071; Delayed speech and language development; Behavioral abnormality
Intellectual disability - microarray and sequencing v3.1154 EPHA7 Konstantinos Varvagiannis gene: EPHA7 was added
gene: EPHA7 was added to Intellectual disability. Sources: Literature
Mode of inheritance for gene: EPHA7 was set to MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
Publications for gene: EPHA7 were set to 34176129; 19664229
Phenotypes for gene: EPHA7 were set to Global developmental delay; Intellectual disability; Delayed speech and language development; Behavioral abnormality
Penetrance for gene: EPHA7 were set to Incomplete
Review for gene: EPHA7 was set to AMBER
Added comment: Lévy et al (2021 - PMID: 34176129) provide evidence that haploinssuficiency of EPHA7 results in a neurodevelopmental disorder.

The authors report on 12 individuals belonging to 9 unrelated families, all harboring with 6q microdeletions spanning EPHA7.

Overlapping features included DD (13/13), ID (10/10 - mild in most cases, individuals with larger CNVs/additional variants had more severe phenotype), speech delay and behavioral disorders. Variable other features incl. hypotonia (70%), non specific facial features, eye abnormalities (40%) and cardiac defects (25%).

The CNVs ranged from 152 kb to few Mb in size but in 4 subjects (P5-8) were only minimal, involving only EPHA7.

The 6q microdeletion included additional ID-related genes in at least one case (eg. ZNF292 in P12) while one subject (P4) harbored also a 7q11.23 Williams syndrome deletion.

Confirmation (e.g. with FISH or qPCR) and segregation analyses were performed. 9 out of 12 individuals had inherited the deletion (5 subjects paternal, 4 maternal), in 1 subject (P12) this occured de novo, while for 2 others inheritance was not specified. Most deletions were inherited from an unaffected parent (in 6/7 families), with unclear contribution in a further one.

Sequencing of an ID gene panel was performed for 5 subjects (P1-4 (sibs) and P9) and exome for 4 ones (P1,2,10,11). CNVs in all these subjects were not limited to EPHA7. These investigations did not reveal other variants responsible for the phenotype of these subjects.

EPHA7 encodes ephrin receptor A7. As the authors comment, ephrin receptors are the largest family of transmembrane receptor tyrosine kinases. These receptors interact with membrane bound ephrins and binding activates the tyrosine kinase activity of the receptor.

The authors discuss on previous studies suggesting an important role for EphA7 in brain development (modulation of cell-cell adhesion and repulsion, regulation of dendrite morphogenesis in early corticogenesis, role in dendritic spine formation later in development. EphA7 has also been proposed to drive neuronal maturation and synaptic function).

Haploinsufficiency for other ephrins or ephrin receptors has been implicated in other NDDs.

Finally the authors comment on a previous report of a de novo 2.16 Mb microdeletion spanning EPHA7 and another gene (TSG1). This deletion, reported by Traylor et al (2009 - PMID: 19664229) was identified in a 15-month old male with DD, microcephaly and dysmorphic features.

Overall Lévy et al promote incomplete penetrance and variable expressivity with haploinsufficiency of this gene being a risk factor for NDD. [The gene has also an %HI of 2.76% and a pLI of 1].

In DECIPHER there are 2 indivuals (DDD participants) with de novo missense variants and abnormality of the nervous system.

As a result this gene can be considered for inclusion in the ID panel with amber rating pending further evidence.
Sources: Literature