Description
This panel contains genes that cause motor neurone disease, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and genes causing spinal muscular atrophies (SMAs) with adult onset. It is maintained by VCGS and RMH.

Genes causing spinal muscular atrophies (SMAs) with congenital/childhood onset are not included in this panel but can be found in the Hereditary Neuropathy panels.

The original panel (as 17/11/2019) was developed and used by the Melbourne Genomics Complex Neurology Flagship.

15 reviewers

  • Kristin Rigbye (Victorian Clinical Genetics Services)

  • Lauren Rogers (Victorian Clinical Genetics Services)

  • Eleanor Williams (Genomics England)

  • Sarah Leigh (Genomics England)

  • Teresa Zhao (Victorian Clinical Genetics Services)

  • Ain Roesley (Victorian Clinical Genetics Services)

  • Sangavi Sivagnanasundram (Melbourne Health)

  • Michelle Torres (Victorian Clinical Genetics Services)

  • Sarah Pantaleo (Victorian Clinical Genetics Services)

  • Chern Lim (Victorian Clinical Genetics Services)

  • Seb Lunke (Victorian Clinical Genetics Services)

  • Bryony Thompson (Royal Melbourne Hospital)

  • Melanie Marty (Victorian Clinical Genetics Services)

  • Elena Savva (Victorian Clinical Genetics Services)

  • Zornitza Stark (Victorian Clinical Genetics Services)

59 Entities

reviewed, green

List Entity Reviews Mode of inheritance Details
59 Entitiess
Green Green List (high evidence)
ALS2
2 reviews
2 green
BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Sources
  • ClinGen
  • Expert Review Green
Phenotypes
  • ALS2-related motor neuron disease, MONDO:0100227
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
ANXA11
1 review
1 green
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert list
  • Expert Review Green
Phenotypes
  • Amytrophic lateral sclerosis 23 MIM#617839
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
ASCC1
2 reviews
2 green
BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Sources
  • Expert list
  • Expert Review Green
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • spinal muscular atrophy with congenital bone fractures 2 (MONDO:0014807
  • MIM#616867)
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
ATL1
2 reviews
2 green
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert list
  • Expert Review Green
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Spastic paraplegia 3A, autosomal dominant MIM#182600
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
BSCL2
2 reviews
2 green
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert list
  • Expert Review Green
Phenotypes
  • Silver spastic paraplegia syndrome MIM#270685
  • Neuropathy, distal hereditary motor, type VA MIM#600794
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
CHCHD10
3 reviews
1 green
Unknown
Sources
  • Expert Review Green
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Royal Melbourne Hospital
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
CHMP2B
2 reviews
1 green
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert Review Green
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Royal Melbourne Hospital
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Frontotemporal dementia and/or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 7 (MIM#600795, MONDO:0010936)
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
DCTN1
2 reviews
2 green
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert Review Amber
  • Expert Review Green
  • Literature
Phenotypes
  • Perry syndrome, MONDO:0008201
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
DNAJB2
3 reviews
2 green
BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Sources
  • Expert list
  • Expert Review Green
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Neuronopathy, distal hereditary motor, autosomal recessive 5 (MIM#614881)
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
ERLIN2
1 review
1 green
BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Sources
  • Expert Review Green
  • Literature
Phenotypes
  • hereditary spastic paraplegia 18 MONDO:0012639
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
FUS
1 review
1 green
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert Review Green
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 6, with or without frontotemporal dementia (MIM#608030)
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
GBE1
2 reviews
2 green
BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Sources
  • Expert list
  • Expert Review Green
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Polyglucosan body disease, adult form MIM#263570
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
GRN
1 review
1 green
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • ClinGen
  • Expert Review Green
Phenotypes
  • frontotemporal dementia and/or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis MONDO:0030923
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
HEXA
2 reviews
2 green
BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Sources
  • Expert Review Green
  • Literature
Phenotypes
  • GM2-gangliosidosis, several forms or Tay-Sachs disease MIM#272800
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
HEXB
2 reviews
2 green
BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Sources
  • Expert Review Green
  • Literature
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Sandhoff disease, infantile, juvenile, and adult forms MIM#268800
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
HNRNPA1
1 review
1 green
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert Review Green
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 20 MIM#615426
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
KIF5A
2 reviews
2 green
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert list
  • Expert Review Green
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • {Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, susceptibility to, 25} MIM#617921
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
MATR3
2 reviews
1 green
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert Review Green
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Royal Melbourne Hospital
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
NEK1
3 reviews
3 green
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert Review Green
  • Literature
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, susceptibility to, 24 MIM#617892
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
OPTN
1 review
1 green
BOTH monoallelic and biallelic (but BIALLELIC mutations cause a more SEVERE disease form), autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Sources
  • Expert Review Green
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 12 with or without frontotemporal dementia (MONDO: 0013264, MIM#613435)
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
PFN1
3 reviews
2 green
Unknown
Sources
  • Expert Review Green
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
REEP1
3 reviews
3 green
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert list
  • Expert Review Green
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Spastic paraplegia 31, autosomal dominant MIM#610250
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
SETX
1 review
1 green
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert Review Green
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 4, juvenile (MIM#602433)
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
SIGMAR1
3 reviews
2 green
Unknown
Sources
  • Expert Review Green
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
SLC52A2
2 reviews
2 green
Unknown
Sources
  • Expert Review Green
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
SLC52A3
2 reviews
2 green
BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Sources
  • Expert Review Green
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
  • Brown-Vialetto-van Laere syndrome 1 (MIM# 211530)
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
SMN1
3 reviews
1 green
BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Sources
  • Expert Review Green
  • Literature
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Spinal muscular atrophy-1, MIM# 253300
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
SOD1
1 review
1 green
BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Sources
  • Expert Review Green
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 1 (105400 AD, AR)
  • Spastic tetraplegia and axial hypotonia, progressive (618598 AR)
Tags
  • treatable
Green Green List (high evidence)
SPART
1 review
1 green
Unknown
Sources
  • Expert list
  • Expert Review Green
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
SPAST
2 reviews
2 green
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert list
  • Expert Review Green
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
SPG11
2 reviews
1 green
BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Sources
  • Expert Review Green
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Royal Melbourne Hospital
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 5, juvenile, MIM# 602099
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
SPG7
2 reviews
2 green
BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Sources
  • Expert Review Green
  • Literature
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Spastic paraplegia 7, autosomal recessive MIM#607259
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
SPTLC1
1 review
1 green
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert Review Green
  • Literature
Phenotypes
  • juvenile amyotrophic lateral sclerosis MONDO:0017593
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
TARDBP
1 review
1 green
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert Review Green
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 10, with or without FTD
  • Frontotemporal lobar degeneration, TARDBP-related (MIM#612069
  • MONDO: 0012790)
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
TBK1
1 review
1 green
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert Review Green
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 4 (MIM#616439
  • MONDO:0011223)
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
TUBA4A
2 reviews
1 green
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert Review Green
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Royal Melbourne Hospital
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 22 with or without frontotemporal dementia, MIM# 616208
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
UBQLN2
1 review
1 green
X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, monoallelic mutations in females may cause disease (may be less severe, later onset than males)
Sources
  • Expert Review Green
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis type 15 (MONDO:0010459
  • MIM#300857)
Tags
Green Green List (high evidence)
VAPB
1 review
1 green
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert Review Green
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Spinal muscular atrophy, late-onset, Finkel type (MIM# 182980)
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 8
Tags
  • founder
Green Green List (high evidence)
VCP
1 review
1 green
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert Review Green
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Frontotemporal dementia and/or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 6 (ALS) (MIM#613954)
Tags
Amber Amber List (moderate evidence)
ANG
2 reviews
1 green
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert Review Amber
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 9 (MONDO: 0012753
  • MIM#611895)
Tags
Amber Amber List (moderate evidence)
CCNF
2 reviews
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert list
  • Expert Review Amber
Phenotypes
  • Frontotemporal dementia and/or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 5, MIM# 619141
Tags
Amber Amber List (moderate evidence)
CYLD
4 reviews
1 green 1 red
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert Review Amber
  • Literature
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Frontotemporal dementia and/or amytrophic lateral sclerosis 8, MIM# 619132
Tags
Amber Amber List (moderate evidence)
DNAJC7
3 reviews
1 green
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
Sources
  • Expert Review Amber
  • Literature
Phenotypes
  • amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Tags
Amber Amber List (moderate evidence)
ERBB4
2 reviews
2 green
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert list
  • Expert Review Amber
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 19 MIM#615515
Tags
Amber Amber List (moderate evidence)
FIG4
2 reviews
1 green
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert Review Amber
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Type 11 (MONDO: 0012945
  • MIM#612577)
Tags
Amber Amber List (moderate evidence)
GLT8D1
2 reviews
1 green
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert list
  • Expert Review Amber
Phenotypes
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Tags
Amber Amber List (moderate evidence)
HNRNPA2B1
1 review
1 red
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • ClinGen
  • Expert Review Amber
Phenotypes
  • amyotrophic lateral sclerosis MONDO:0004976
Tags
Amber Amber List (moderate evidence)
LGALSL
1 review
Unknown
Sources
  • ClinGen
  • Expert Review Amber
Phenotypes
  • amyotrophic lateral sclerosis MONDO:0004976
Tags
Amber Amber List (moderate evidence)
PCDHA9
1 review
BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Sources
  • Expert Review Amber
  • Literature
Phenotypes
  • amyotrophic lateral sclerosis MONDO:0004976
Tags
Amber Amber List (moderate evidence)
PRPH
2 reviews
BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Sources
  • Expert list
  • Expert Review Amber
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • {Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, susceptibility to}, 105400
Tags
Amber Amber List (moderate evidence)
RNF13
2 reviews
1 green
BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Sources
  • Expert Review Amber
  • Expert Review Green
  • Literature
Phenotypes
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Tags
Amber Amber List (moderate evidence)
SQSTM1
2 reviews
1 green
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert Review Amber
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Royal Melbourne Hospital
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Frontotemporal dementia and/or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 3 MONDO:0014640
Tags
Amber Amber List (moderate evidence)
SS18L1
2 reviews
1 green
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert list
  • Expert Review Amber
Phenotypes
  • amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (MONDO:0004976)
Tags
Amber Amber List (moderate evidence)
TAF15
1 review
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert list
  • Expert Review Amber
Phenotypes
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Tags
Amber Amber List (moderate evidence)
TIA1
2 reviews
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert list
  • Expert Review Amber
Phenotypes
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 26 with or without frontotemporal dementia 619133
Tags
Amber Amber List (moderate evidence)
UBQLN4
1 review
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert list
  • Expert Review Amber
Phenotypes
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Tags
Amber Amber List (moderate evidence)
VRK1
3 reviews
1 red
BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Sources
  • Expert Review Amber
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Royal Melbourne Hospital
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Adult-onset spinal muscular atrophy without pontocerebellar hypoplasia
  • Distal hereditary motor neuropathy
  • dHMN/dSMA
Tags
Red Red List (low evidence)
GNE
2 reviews
1 green 1 red
BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Sources
  • Expert list
  • Expert Review Green
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Tags
Red Red List (low evidence)
SLC52A1
3 reviews
3 red
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Sources
  • Expert list
  • Expert Review Red
  • Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Complex Neurology Flagship
  • Victorian Clinical Genetics Services
Phenotypes
  • Riboflavin deficiency, MIM#615026
Tags

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