Activity

Filter

Cancel
Date Panel Item Activity
15 actions
Early onset or syndromic epilepsy v1.191 RALA Rebecca Foulger Source Wessex and West Midlands GLH was added to RALA.
Early onset or syndromic epilepsy v1.190 RALA Rebecca Foulger Source NHS GMS was added to RALA.
Early onset or syndromic epilepsy v1.189 RALA Rebecca Foulger reviewed gene: RALA: Rating: AMBER; Mode of pathogenicity: ; Publications: ; Phenotypes: ; Mode of inheritance:
Early onset or syndromic epilepsy v1.188 RALA Tracy Lester reviewed gene: RALA: Rating: GREEN; Mode of pathogenicity: ; Publications: ; Phenotypes: intellectual disability and developmental delay; Mode of inheritance: MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Early onset or syndromic epilepsy v1.52 RALA Eleanor Williams Added comment: Comment on publications: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007671 is PMID: 30500825
Early onset or syndromic epilepsy v1.52 RALA Eleanor Williams Publications for gene: RALA were set to doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007671
Early onset or syndromic epilepsy v0.1523 RALA Sarah Leigh Marked gene: RALA as ready
Early onset or syndromic epilepsy v0.1523 RALA Sarah Leigh Added comment: Comment when marking as ready: Associated with phenotype in OMIM and not in Gen2Phen. At least seven apparetly gain of function variants identified in eleven unrelated cases, with seizures reported in six of these cases.
Early onset or syndromic epilepsy v0.1523 RALA Sarah Leigh Gene: rala has been classified as Green List (High Evidence).
Early onset or syndromic epilepsy v0.1523 RALA Sarah Leigh Added comment: Comment on publications: PMID for doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007671 not yet available
Early onset or syndromic epilepsy v0.1523 RALA Sarah Leigh Publications for gene: RALA were set to
Early onset or syndromic epilepsy v0.1521 RALA Sarah Leigh Classified gene: RALA as Green List (high evidence)
Early onset or syndromic epilepsy v0.1521 RALA Sarah Leigh Added comment: Comment on list classification: Based on reviewers' comments and sufficient cases.
Early onset or syndromic epilepsy v0.1521 RALA Sarah Leigh Gene: rala has been classified as Green List (High Evidence).
Early onset or syndromic epilepsy v0.1284 RALA Konstantinos Varvagiannis gene: RALA was added
gene: RALA was added to Genetic epilepsy syndromes. Sources: Literature
Mode of inheritance for gene: RALA was set to MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
Phenotypes for gene: RALA were set to Global developmental delay; Intellectual disability; Seizures; Abnormality of nervous system morphology
Penetrance for gene: RALA were set to unknown
Mode of pathogenicity for gene: RALA was set to Loss-of-function variants (as defined in pop up message) DO NOT cause this phenotype - please provide details in the comments
Review for gene: RALA was set to GREEN
Added comment: Hiatt et al. (doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007671) report on 11 individuals (incl. a pair of monozygotic twins) from 10 unrelated families, most (10/11) with de novo mutations in RALA.

DD/ID was a prominent feature (the authors note that ID was specifically noted in 8 but could not be excluded in 3 further individuals who appear to be very young in the table). Structural brain anomalies (9/11), seizures (6/11) and common facial features were also noted.

RALA belongs to the RAS superfamily of small GTPases.

5 different de novo missense variants and 1 in-frame deletion, all within a GTP/GDP binding region of RALA (although appart in the protein primary structure) were observed. 7 occurrences of missense variants concerned Val25 and Lys128 (V25M, V25L, K128R), one Asp130 (D130G) and a further one Ser157 (S157A). The in-frame deletion concerned Ala158.

Missense variants in corresponding positions of RAS proteins (HRAS/KRAS/NRAS) have been reported in RASopathies, while the authors observed some phenotypic overlap with the latter group of disorders (DD/ID, growth delay, macrocephaly, high forehead and position of ears).

Functional studies demonstrated reduction in GTPase activity (for all variants) and altered RALA effector binding (for most reduction - in the case of S157A, increase).

Several lines of evidence are provided to show that alteration of the GTP/GTP-binding rather than a dosage effect is considered the likely mechanism. RALA is depleted in missense mutations in its GTP/GDP binding domain.

For these reasons and others (segregation studies not possible, variant observed 2x in Bravo database, phenotypic differences compared to the rest of the cohort, ROH suggesting parental consanguinity in the specific individual) the single nonsense variant (R176X) reported in the study is considered a VUS.

Seizures were a feature in most (6/11) individuals (5 different variants incl. R176X). Discordance for this feature was however noted for individuals with the same variant.

As a result, this gene can be considered for inclusion in this panel as green (or amber).
Sources: Literature