Description
This missense variant replaces arginine with histidine at codon 286 of the TNNT2 protein. Computational prediction tools indicate that this variant's impact on protein structure and function is inconclusive. Functional studies using induced pluripotent stem cells provide some evidence that this variant may impact TNNT2 function (PMID: 32815737). This variant has been reported in multiple individuals and families affected with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (PMID: 12860912, 19035361, 23711808, 24111713, 25086479, 25351510, 26507537, 27082122, 27532257, 28356264, 28771489, 32815737, 33495596, 33495597, 37107598). Some of these individuals also carried pathogenic variants in other genes associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (PMID: 25086479 , 37107598). Compound heterozygous individuals showed a more severe phenotype than heterozygous individuals (PMID: 25086479). Family studies are inconclusive as to whether this variant segregates with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or not (PMID: 19035361, 25086479, 26507537). This variant has been identified in healthy control cohorts, and is estimated to have a low penetrance (PMID: 32815737). This variant has been identified in 19/273936 chromosomes in the general population by the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD). In summary, this is a variant with unknown functional impact that has been reported in multiple individuals affected with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. However, this variant also occurs at an appreciable frequency in the general population and it is inconclusive whether this variant segregates with disease in affected families. Additional studies are necessary to determine the role of this variant in disease conclusively. Therefore, this variant is classified as a Variant of 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 | 108544 | not provided | not provided | | 6 | not provided | not provided | not provided |