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Early onset or syndromic epilepsy v1.331 DHPS Rebecca Foulger Source Wessex and West Midlands GLH was added to DHPS.
Early onset or syndromic epilepsy v1.330 DHPS Rebecca Foulger Source NHS GMS was added to DHPS.
Early onset or syndromic epilepsy v1.314 DHPS Rebecca Foulger commented on gene: DHPS: Kept rating as Green based on Green post-Webex review from Helen Lord.
Early onset or syndromic epilepsy v1.262 DHPS Rebecca Foulger reviewed gene: DHPS: Rating: AMBER; Mode of pathogenicity: ; Publications: ; Phenotypes: ; Mode of inheritance:
Early onset or syndromic epilepsy v1.261 DHPS Helen Lord reviewed gene: DHPS: Rating: GREEN; Mode of pathogenicity: ; Publications: ; Phenotypes: ; Mode of inheritance: BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Early onset or syndromic epilepsy v1.177 DHPS Catherine Snow Source Expert Review Green was added to DHPS.
Source Expert Review was added to DHPS.
Added phenotypes Abnormality of head or neck; Seizures; EEG abnormality; Behavioral abnormality; Abnormal muscle tone; Intellectual disability; Global developmental delay for gene: DHPS
Publications for gene DHPS were changed from 21389784; 21850436 to 21389784; 30661771; 21850436
Rating Changed from No List (delete) to Green List (high evidence)
Early onset or syndromic epilepsy v1.13 DHPS Konstantinos Varvagiannis gene: DHPS was added
gene: DHPS was added to Genetic epilepsy syndromes. Sources: Literature
Mode of inheritance for gene: DHPS was set to BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Publications for gene: DHPS were set to 21389784; 21850436
Phenotypes for gene: DHPS were set to Abnormal muscle tone; Global developmental delay; Intellectual disability; Seizures; EEG abnormality; Behavioral abnormality; Abnormality of head or neck
Penetrance for gene: DHPS were set to Complete
Review for gene: DHPS was set to GREEN
Added comment: Ganapathi et al. (doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.12.017 - PMID : NA) report on 5 individuals from 4 unrelated families with biallelic pathogenic variants in DHPS.

The phenotype consisted of DD/ID (5/5), tone abnormalities (hypotonia/hypertonia/spasticity - 5/5), seizures (5/5 - in one case though unclear staring spells) with EEG abnormalities (5/5). Additionally most individuals displayed behavioral issues, or some common facial features.

Several other disorders had been ruled prior to the diagnosis, in all cases by exome sequencing.

All individuals harbored a specific missense variant (c.518A>G or p.Asn173Ser) in trans with various other variants incl. a splice site mutation (c.1014+1G>A), an in-frame deletion of 2 amino acids (c.912_917delTTACAT or p.Tyr305_Ile306del) or a variant abolishing the translation initiation codon (c.1A>G or p.Met1?) [All variants using NM_001930.3 as a reference].

Deoxyhypusine synthase (encoded by DHPS) is an enzyme participating in the first step of hypusine synthesis, an amino-acid which is specific to eukaryotic initiation factor 5A (eIF5A) and its homolog (eIF5A2).

eIF5A, its hypusinated form and DHPS have all been previously implicated in cellular proliferation/differentiation. eIF5A has also been proposed to be a mRNA translation elongation factor. A role of eIF5A in neuronal growth and survival has been proposed previously (all ref. in present article).

Neither eIF5A, nor DHPS or DOHH (an enzyme required for the second step of hypusination) have been associated to any disorders previously. Mutations in genes encoding other eukaryotic elongator factors (eg. EEF1A2, EEF2) have been associated with neurodevelopmental disorders.

Concerning the DHPS variants reported:

cDNA studies suggested that the c.1014+1G>A variant is translated but results in aberrant splicing and truncation of the protein before its active site.

The in-frame deletion as well as the missense variant were shown to have absent or partial (20%) enzyme activity in vitro respectively compared to wild-type (following expression in E.coli BL21(DE3) cells).

In line with this, reduced hypusination of eIF5A was observed for these 2 variants when compared to wild-type DHPS, upon co-transfection of constructs overexpressing DHPS (wt or mut.) and eIF5A in HEK293T cells.

Absence of homozygous DHPS LoF variants in population databases might suggest that complete deficiency is incompatible with normal embryonic development. Mice heterozygous for Dhps deletion do not demonstrate severe phenotypes, though homozygosity is embryonically lethal (PMIDs: 21389784, 21850436).
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DHPS is not associated with any phenotype in G2P, nor in OMIM.
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As a result, DHPS can be considered for inclusion in this panel as green (or amber).
Sources: Literature