Description
Variant summary: ABCC6 c.1171A>G (p.Arg391Gly) results in a non-conservative amino acid change to a well-conserved residue (HGMD) located in a helix at the cytoplasmic site of transmembrane domain 1 (Szeri_2022) of the encoded protein sequence. Five of five in-silico tools predict a damaging effect of the variant on protein function. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.0056 in 250940 control chromosomes in the gnomAD database, including 5 homozygotes. c.1171A>G has been reported in the literature in many individuals affected with Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum who are compound heterozygous with other pathogenic variants (e.g. Chassaing_2004, Garcia-Fernandez_2008, Ringpfeil_2006, Saeidan_2022, Schulz_2006, Szeri_2002). A modest enrichment in the frequency of the variant in affected individuals over the general population suggests the possibility that it may be associated with disease with a low penetrance, possibly mediated by interactions with unidentified variants in an interacting partner protein of ABCC6 (Szeri_2022). These reports do not provide unequivocal conclusions about association of the variant with Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum. At least two publications report experimental evidence evaluating an impact on protein function, finding no damaging effect of this variant on expression, subcellular localization, or functional activity (Szeri_2022, Saeidan_2022). The following publications have been ascertained in the context of this evaluation (PMID: 36317459, 15086542, 16410789, 16835894, 18513494, 16835894). Eight submitters have provided clinical-significance assessments for this variant to ClinVar after 2014 with conflicting interpretations, and classified it as likely benign (n=2), pathogenic (n=1), and uncertain significance (n=5). Based on the evidence outlined above, the variant was classified as uncertain significance.
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Origin | Affected | Number tested | Tissue | Purpose | Method | Individuals | Allele frequency | Families | Co-occurrences |
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1 | germline | unknown | not provided | not provided | not provided | | not provided | not provided | not provided | not provided |