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Mendeliome v0.2768 UGDH Zornitza Stark Marked gene: UGDH as ready
Mendeliome v0.2768 UGDH Zornitza Stark Gene: ugdh has been classified as Green List (High Evidence).
Mendeliome v0.2768 UGDH Zornitza Stark Classified gene: UGDH as Green List (high evidence)
Mendeliome v0.2768 UGDH Zornitza Stark Gene: ugdh has been classified as Green List (High Evidence).
Mendeliome v0.2767 UGDH Zornitza Stark gene: UGDH was added
gene: UGDH was added to Mendeliome. Sources: Literature
Mode of inheritance for gene: UGDH was set to BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Publications for gene: UGDH were set to 32001716
Phenotypes for gene: UGDH were set to Epileptic encephalopathy, early infantile, 84 - MIM #618792
Review for gene: UGDH was set to GREEN
Added comment: 36 individuals with biallelic UGDH pathogenic variants reported. The phenotype corresponded overall to a developmental epileptic encephalopathy with hypotonia, feeding difficulties, severe global DD, moderate or commonly severe ID in all. Hypotonia and motor disorder (incl. spasticity, dystonia, ataxia, chorea, etc) often occurred prior to the onset of seizures. A single individual did not present seizures and 2 sibs had only seizures in the setting of fever. There were no individuals with biallelic pLoF variants identified. Parental/sib studies were all compatible with AR inheritance mode.

UGDH encodes the enzyme UDP-glucose dehydrogenase which converts UDP-glucose to UDP-glucuronate, the latter being a critical component of the glycosaminoglycans, hyaluronan, chondroitin sulfate, and heparan sulfate. Patient fibroblast and biochemical assays suggested a LoF effect of variants leading to impairment of UGDH stability, oligomerization or enzymatic activity (decreased UGDH-catalyzed reduction of NAD+ to NADH / hyaluronic acid production which requires UDP-glucuronate).

Attempts to model the disorder using an already developped zebrafish model (for a hypomorphic LoF allele) were unsuccessful as fish did not exhibit seizures spontaneously or upon induction with PTZ. Modelling of the disorder in vitro using patient-derived cerebral organoids demonstrated smaller organoids due to reduced number of proliferating neural progenitors
Sources: Literature