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Classic Galactosemia: Clinical and Computational Characterization of a Novel GALT Missense Variant (p.A303D) and a Literature Review.

ABSTRACT: Classic galactosemia is an autosomal recessive inherited liver disorder of carbohydrate metabolism caused by deficient activity of galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase (GALT). While a galactose-restricted diet is lifesaving, most patients still develop long-term complications. In this study, we report on a two-week-old female patient who is a compound heterozygote for a known pathogenic variant (p.K285N) and a novel missense variant (p.A303D) in the GALT gene. Segregation analysis showed that the patient inherited the p.K285N pathogenic variant from her father and the p.A303D variant from her mother. A bioinformatics analysis to predict the impact of the p.A303D missense variant on the structure and stability of the GALT protein revealed that it may be pathogenic. Based on this finding, we performed a literature review of all GALT missense variants identified in homozygous and compound heterozygous galactosemia patients carrying the p.K285N pathogenic variant to explore their molecular effects on the clinical phenotype of the disease. Our analysis revealed that these missense variants are responsible for a wide range of molecular defects. This study expands the clinical and mutational spectrum in classic galactosemia and reinforces the importance of understanding the molecular consequences of genetic variants to incorporate genetic analysis into clinical care.

SUBMITTER: Forte G

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10744227 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Classic Galactosemia: Clinical and Computational Characterization of a Novel <i>GALT</i> Missense Variant (p.A303D) and a Literature Review.

Forte Giovanna G Buonadonna Antonia Lucia AL Pantaleo Antonino A Fasano Candida C Capodiferro Donatella D Grossi Valentina V Sanese Paola P Cariola Filomena F De Marco Katia K Lepore Signorile Martina M Manghisi Andrea A Guglielmi Anna Filomena AF Simonetti Simonetta S Laforgia Nicola N Disciglio Vittoria V Simone Cristiano C

International journal of molecular sciences 20231212 24

Classic galactosemia is an autosomal recessive inherited liver disorder of carbohydrate metabolism caused by deficient activity of galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase (GALT). While a galactose-restricted diet is lifesaving, most patients still develop long-term complications. In this study, we report on a two-week-old female patient who is a compound heterozygote for a known pathogenic variant (p.K285N) and a novel missense variant (p.A303D) in the <i>GALT</i> gene. Segregation analysis sh ...[more]

PMID: 38139222

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Project description:Classic and clinical variant galactosemia (CG/CVG) are allelic, autosomal recessive disorders that result from deficiency of galactose-1-P uridylyltransferase (GALT). CG/CVG has been reported globally among patients of diverse ancestries, but most large studies of outcomes have included, almost exclusively, patients categorized as White or Caucasian. As a first step to explore whether the cohorts studied are representative of the CG/CVG population at large, we sought to define the racial and ethnic makeup of CG/CVG newborns in a diverse population with essentially universal newborn screening (NBS) for galactosemia: the United States (US). First, we estimated the predicted racial and ethnic distribution of CG/CVG by combining the reported demographics of US newborns from 2016 to 2018 with predicted homozygosity or compound heterozygosity of pathogenic, or likely pathogenic, GALT alleles from the relevant ancestral groups. Incorporating some simplifying assumptions, we predicted that of US newborns diagnosed with CG/CVG, 65% should be White (non-Hispanic), 23% should be Black (non-Hispanic), 10% should be Hispanic, and 2% should be Asian (non-Hispanic). Next, we calculated the observed racial and ethnic distribution of US newborns diagnosed with CG/CVG using available de-identified data from state NBS programs from 2016 to 2018. Of the 235 newborns in this cohort, 41 were categorized as other or unknown. Of the remaining 194, 66% were White (non-Hispanic or ethnicity unknown), 16% were Black (non-Hispanic or ethnicity unknown),15% were Hispanic, and 2% were Asian (non-Hispanic or ethnicity unknown). This observed distribution was statistically indistinguishable from the predicted distribution. To the limits of our study, these data confirm the racial and ethnic diversity of newborns with CG/CVG in the US, demonstrate an approach for estimating CG/CVG racial and ethnic diversity in other populations, and raise the troubling possibility that current understanding of long-term outcomes in CG/CVG may be skewed by ascertainment bias of the cohorts studied.

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Classic Galactosemia: Clinical and Computational Characterization of a Novel GALT Missense Variant (p.A303D) and a Literature Review.

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Classic Galactosemia: Clinical and Computational Characterization of a Novel <i>GALT</i> Missense Variant (p.A303D) and a Literature Review.

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