ClinVar

Description

This sequence change replaces arginine, which is basic and polar, with tryptophan, which is neutral and slightly polar, at codon 441 of the TH protein (p.Arg441Trp). This variant is present in population databases (rs575326605, gnomAD 0.1%). This missense change has been observed in individual(s) with clinical features of TH-related dystonia (PMID: 27619486; Invitae). In at least one individual the data is consistent with being in trans (on the opposite chromosome) from a pathogenic variant. ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 573670). Advanced modeling of protein sequence and biophysical properties (such as structural, functional, and spatial information, amino acid conservation, physicochemical variation, residue mobility, and thermodynamic stability) has been performed at Invitae for this missense variant, however the output from this modeling did not meet the statistical confidence thresholds required to predict the impact of this variant on TH protein function. This variant disrupts the p.Arg441 amino acid residue in TH. Other variant(s) that disrupt this residue have been observed in individuals with TH-related conditions (PMID: 23939262, 27619486), which suggests that this may be a clinically significant amino acid residue. For these reasons, this variant has been classified as Pathogenic.