Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
NEURODEGENERATION WITH BRAIN IRON ACCUMULATION 5
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We report the clinical neurophysiological and neuro-imaging findings of a new subtype of BPAN in a 6 year-old female patient, who was identified to have a large de novo WDR45 deletion who presented in the first year of life with early onset global developmental delay, severe cognitive impairment, generalized hypotonia and a corticosteroid responsive epileptic encephalopathy. 31536831 2020
NEURODEGENERATION WITH BRAIN IRON ACCUMULATION 5
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Next-generation sequencing revealed a BPAN-causing pathogenic variant in <i>WDR45 (WD repeat-containing protein 45)</i> gene (c.830 + 1G > A, XLD, heterozygous, de novo). 31505688 2020
NEURODEGENERATION WITH BRAIN IRON ACCUMULATION 5
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Thus, the loss of WDR45 cripples macroautophagy machinery in neurons and leads to impairment in organelle autophagy, which provides a mechanistic understanding of cause of BPAN and a potential therapeutic strategy to treat this genetic disorder. 31204559 2020
NEURODEGENERATION WITH BRAIN IRON ACCUMULATION 5
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Beta-propeller protein-associated neurodegeneration (BPAN, OMIM 300894) is an X-linked neurodegenerative disorder caused by mutations in WDR45. 31332960 2019
NEURODEGENERATION WITH BRAIN IRON ACCUMULATION 5
0.800 CausalMutation disease CLINVAR Early onset developmental delay and epilepsy in pediatric patients with WDR45 variants. 29981852 2019
NEURODEGENERATION WITH BRAIN IRON ACCUMULATION 5
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Beta-propeller protein-associated neurodegeneration (BPAN) is caused by mutations in the autophagy gene <i>WDR45/WIPI4</i>. 31525124 2019
NEURODEGENERATION WITH BRAIN IRON ACCUMULATION 5
0.800 CausalMutation disease CLINVAR A Novel and Mosaic WDR45 Nonsense Variant Causes Beta-Propeller Protein-Associated Neurodegeneration Identified Through Whole Exome Sequencing and X chromosome Heterozygosity Analysis. 30612247 2019
NEURODEGENERATION WITH BRAIN IRON ACCUMULATION 5
0.800 Biomarker disease BEFREE The role of WDR45 has been implicated in BPAN almost exclusively in females possibly due to male lethality. 30612247 2019
NEURODEGENERATION WITH BRAIN IRON ACCUMULATION 5
0.800 Biomarker disease BEFREE Here, we discuss recent updates on WIPI4's mechanistic role in autophagy and link the neuropathological manifestations of BPAN's biphasic infantile onset (epilepsy, autism) and adolescent onset (dystonic, Parkinsonism, dementia) phenotypes to neurological consequences of autophagy impairment that are now known or emerging in many other neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders. 30204590 2019
NEURODEGENERATION WITH BRAIN IRON ACCUMULATION 5
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE BPAN is an X-linked neurodegeneration disorder associated with a mutation in the WDR45 gene. 31632858 2019
NEURODEGENERATION WITH BRAIN IRON ACCUMULATION 5
0.800 Biomarker disease BEFREE WDR45 gene-associated neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (NBIA), referred to as beta-propeller protein-associated neurodegeneration (BPAN), is a rare disorder that presents with a very nonspecific clinical phenotype in children constituting global developmental delay. 29681108 2018
NEURODEGENERATION WITH BRAIN IRON ACCUMULATION 5
0.800 CausalMutation disease CLINVAR Severe infantile onset developmental and epileptic encephalopathy caused by mutations in autophagy gene WDR45. 29171013 2018
NEURODEGENERATION WITH BRAIN IRON ACCUMULATION 5
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Heterozygous de novo variants in the autophagy gene, WDR45, are found in beta-propeller protein-associated neurodegeneration (BPAN). 29171013 2018
NEURODEGENERATION WITH BRAIN IRON ACCUMULATION 5
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We present a 3-year-old girl with beta-propeller protein-associated neurodegeneration (BPAN) who had a de novo heterozygous splice-site mutation of c.831-1G>C in WDR45 and developed infantile spasms; her onset age of infantile spasms was relatively late. 28551038 2017
NEURODEGENERATION WITH BRAIN IRON ACCUMULATION 5
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mutations in WDR45 are responsible for beta-propeller protein-associated neurodegeneration (BPAN), which is an X-linked form of neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation. 28711740 2017
NEURODEGENERATION WITH BRAIN IRON ACCUMULATION 5
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We report a 33-year-old female with a rare subtype of NBIA, called beta-propeller protein-associated neurodegeneration (BPAN) with a hitherto unknown missense variant in WDR45. 28643035 2017
NEURODEGENERATION WITH BRAIN IRON ACCUMULATION 5
0.800 Biomarker disease BEFREE Mutations in <i>WDR45</i> gene, coding for a beta-propeller protein, have been found in patients affected by Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation, NBIA5 (also known as BPAN). 28261264 2017
NEURODEGENERATION WITH BRAIN IRON ACCUMULATION 5
0.800 CausalMutation disease CLINVAR Japanese WDR45 de novo mutation diagnosed by exome analysis: A case report. 28932395 2017
NEURODEGENERATION WITH BRAIN IRON ACCUMULATION 5
0.800 CausalMutation disease CLINVAR Early manifestations of epileptic encephalopathy, brain atrophy, and elevation of serum neuron specific enolase in a boy with beta-propeller protein-associated neurodegeneration. 28711740 2017
NEURODEGENERATION WITH BRAIN IRON ACCUMULATION 5
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE De novo mutations in WDR45 cause beta-propeller protein-associated neurodegeneration characterized by iron accumulation in the basal ganglia. 27030146 2016
NEURODEGENERATION WITH BRAIN IRON ACCUMULATION 5
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE From this pair of siblings with BPAN we conclude that: (1) inherited WDR45 variants are possible, albeit rare; (2) hemizygous germline variants in males can be viable, but likely result in a more severe phenotype; (3) for siblings with germline variants, males should be more significantly affected than females; and (4) because gonadal and germline mosaicism are possible and healthy female carriers can be found, parental testing for variants in WDR45 should be considered. 26577041 2016
NEURODEGENERATION WITH BRAIN IRON ACCUMULATION 5
0.800 Biomarker disease GENOMICS_ENGLAND Advantages and pitfalls of an extended gene panel for investigating complex neurometabolic phenotypes. 27604308 2016
NEURODEGENERATION WITH BRAIN IRON ACCUMULATION 5
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In this report, we describe a girl with autistic regression, seizures, intracranial calcification, iron accumulation in substantia nigra, and globi pallidi, and diagnosis of BPAN was established based on the identification of previously described disease causing variant in WD repeat domain 45 (WDR45) gene encoding for β propeller protein. 26859818 2016
NEURODEGENERATION WITH BRAIN IRON ACCUMULATION 5
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE BPAN is caused by mutations in an X-linked gene WDR45 that is involved in autophagy. 26481852 2016
NEURODEGENERATION WITH BRAIN IRON ACCUMULATION 5
0.800 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR High frequency of beta-propeller protein-associated neurodegeneration (BPAN) among patients with intellectual disability and young-onset parkinsonism. 25744623 2015