Description
This variant replaces isoleucine with threonine at codon 49 of the CDKN2A (p16INK4A) protein. Computational prediction tool is inconclusive regarding the impact of this variant on protein structure and function (internally defined REVEL score threshold 0.5 < inconclusive < 0.7, PMID: 27666373). Functional studies have reported the mutant protein to be partially to fully functional in CDK4 and CDK6 binding in yeast and mammalian assays (PMID: 7566978, 7647780, 8573142, 10389768, 10719365, 21462282). Cell cycle and growth arrest assays have produced inconsistent results with the mutant protein showing normal activity (PMID: 33823155) or significantly reduced activity (PMID: 10389768, 21462282, 35001868). This variant has been reported in multiple individuals and families affected with melanoma (PMID: 7987387, 11687599, 15075790, 16234564, 16896043, 17218939, 18335566, 21085193, 21462282, 26681309). This variant has also been identified in 158/280824 chromosomes (157/35432 Latino chromosomes) by the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD). Although this variant has been observed in multiple individuals affected with melanoma, it occurs at a high allele frequency in the general population (0.44% in the Latino population). The available evidence is insufficient 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 | not provided | not provided | not provided | | not provided | not provided | not provided | not provided |