BabyScreen+ newborn screening
Gene: OAT Green List (high evidence)Green List (high evidence)
Rated as 'moderate actionability' in paediatric patients by ClinGen.
GA due to deficiency of the enzyme ornithine aminotransferase (OAT) is characterized by a triad of progressive chorioretinal degeneration, early cataract formation, and type II muscle fiber atrophy. GA first presents as night blindness and constriction of the visual field caused by sharply demarcated circular areas of chorioretinal atrophy in the periphery. Atrophic areas progressively increase, coalesce, and spread towards the macula leading to central visual loss and blindness (vision less than 20/200).
Age at diagnosis ranges from 1 month to 44 years. The condition is characterized by the development of chorioretinal atrophic patches that start in the mid-peripheral retina in the first decade of life. Myopia, night blindness, changes in the macula (including cystic changes), and visual field affection usually start in the first or second decade. Most patients with GA have posterior subcapsular cataracts by the end of the second decade. Irreversible loss of vision and blindness generally occurs between 40 and 55 years of age but is highly variable.
Treatment of GA consists mainly of dietary modifications to help lower elevated systemic ornithine levels. Restriction of dietary arginine, a precursor of ornithine, appears to have therapeutic value. Pediatric patients undergoing arginine restriction should receive enough calories in their diet supplemented by essential amino acids, vitamins, and minerals to avoid malnutrition and excessive break down of endogenous proteins.
A long-term observational study of 27 patients with GA, 17 who complied with the arginine-restricted diet and 10 who were noncompliant, found that at 14 years follow-up the rates of vision loss were significantly slower in the compliant group for 3 of the 4 outcome measures, when adjusted for age.
Sources: ClinGenCreated: 29 Dec 2022, 10:11 p.m.
Mode of inheritance
BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Phenotypes
Gyrate atrophy of choroid and retina with or without ornithinemia MIM#258870
Added phenotypes Gyrate atrophy of choroid and retina with or without ornithinemia MIM#258870 for gene: OAT
Tag for review was removed from gene: OAT.
Gene: oat has been classified as Green List (High Evidence).
Gene: oat has been classified as Green List (High Evidence).
gene: OAT was added gene: OAT was added to gNBS. Sources: ClinGen for review, treatable, metabolic tags were added to gene: OAT. Mode of inheritance for gene: OAT was set to BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal Phenotypes for gene: OAT were set to Gyrate atrophy of choroid and retina with or without ornithinemia MIM#258870 Review for gene: OAT was set to GREEN
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A. There are plausible disease-causing mutations(i) within, affecting or encompassing an interpretable functional region(ii) of this gene identified in multiple (>3) unrelated cases/families with the phenotype(iii).
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B. There are plausible disease-causing mutations(i) within, affecting or encompassing cis-regulatory elements convincingly affecting the expression of a single gene identified in multiple (>3) unrelated cases/families with the phenotype(iii).
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C. As definitions A or B but in 2 or 3 unrelated cases/families with the phenotype, with the addition of convincing bioinformatic or functional evidence of causation e.g. known inborn error of metabolism with mutation in orthologous gene which is known to have the relevant deficient enzymatic activity in other species; existence of an animal model which recapitulates the human phenotype.
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D. Evidence indicates that disease-causing mutations follow a Mendelian pattern of causation appropriate for reporting in a diagnostic setting(iv).
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E. No convincing evidence exists or has emerged that contradicts the role of the gene in the specified phenotype.
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It’s assumed that loss-of-function variants in this gene can cause the disease/phenotype unless an exception to this rule is known. We would like to collect information regarding exceptions. An example exception is the PCSK9 gene, where loss-of-function variants are not relevant for a hypercholesterolemia phenotype as they are associated with increased LDL-cholesterol uptake via LDLR (PMID: 25911073).
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Standardised terms were used to represent the gene-disease mode of inheritance, and were mapped to commonly used terms from the different sources. Below each of the terms is described, along with the equivalent commonly-used terms.
A variant on one allele of this gene can cause the disease, and imprinting has not been implicated.
A variant on the paternally-inherited allele of this gene can cause the disease, if the alternate allele is imprinted (function muted).
A variant on the maternally-inherited allele of this gene can cause the disease, if the alternate allele is imprinted (function muted).
A variant on one allele of this gene can cause the disease. This is the default used for autosomal dominant mode of inheritance where no knowledge of the imprinting status of the gene required to cause the disease is known. Mapped to the following commonly used terms from different sources: autosomal dominant, dominant, AD, DOMINANT.
A variant on both alleles of this gene is required to cause the disease. Mapped to the following commonly used terms from different sources: autosomal recessive, recessive, AR, RECESSIVE.
The disease can be caused by a variant on one or both alleles of this gene. Mapped to the following commonly used terms from different sources: autosomal recessive or autosomal dominant, recessive or dominant, AR/AD, AD/AR, DOMINANT/RECESSIVE, RECESSIVE/DOMINANT.
A variant on one allele of this gene can cause the disease, however a variant on both alleles of this gene can result in a more severe form of the disease/phenotype.
A variant in this gene can cause the disease in males as they have one X-chromosome allele, whereas a variant on both X-chromosome alleles is required to cause the disease in females. Mapped to the following commonly used term from different sources: X-linked recessive.
A variant in this gene can cause the disease in males as they have one X-chromosome allele. A variant on one allele of this gene may also cause the disease in females, though the disease/phenotype may be less severe and may have a later-onset than is seen in males. X-linked inactivation and mosaicism in different tissues complicate whether a female presents with the disease, and can change over their lifetime. This term is the default setting used for X-linked genes, where it is not known definitately whether females require a variant on each allele of this gene in order to be affected. Mapped to the following commonly used terms from different sources: X-linked dominant, x-linked, X-LINKED, X-linked.
The gene is in the mitochondrial genome and variants within this can cause this disease, maternally inherited. Mapped to the following commonly used term from different sources: Mitochondrial.
Mapped to the following commonly used terms from different sources: Unknown, NA, information not provided.
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