ClinVar

Description

The inherited c.3152C>T (p.Ser1051Leu) variant identified in the KCNT1 gene substitutes a moderately conserved Serine for Leucine at amino acid1051/1236 (coding exon 27/31). This variant is found with low frequency in gnomAD (v3.0)(5 heterozygotes, 0 homozygotes; allele frequency: 3.49e-5) suggesting it is not a common benign variant in the populations represented in that database. In silico algorithms predict this variant to be Deleterious (Provean; score -2.58) and Damaging (SIFT; score:0.031) to the function of the canonical transcript. This variant is reported as a Variant of Uncertain Significance in ClinVar (VarID:642169) and to our current knowledge has not been reported in affected individuals in the literature. The p.Ser1051 residue is not within a mapped domain of KCNT1 (UniProtKB: Q5JUK3), and is located within the C-terminal cytoplasmic domain, however variants outside of mapped domains and within the C-terminal cytoplasmic domain have been identified in affected individuals in the literature [PMID:26122718]. Given the lack of compelling evidence for its pathogenicity, the c.3152C>T (p.Ser1051Leu) variant identified in the KCNT1 gene is reported here as a Variant of Uncertain Significance.