ClinVar

Description

Variant summary: NKX2-5 c.355G>T (p.Ala119Ser) results in a conservative amino acid change in the encoded protein sequence. Four of five in-silico tools predict a benign effect of the variant on protein function. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.00097 in 259522 control chromosomes in the gnomAD database, including 2 homozygotes. The observed variant frequency is approximately 194.2 fold of the estimated maximal expected allele frequency for a pathogenic variant in NKX2-5 causing Congenital Heart Disease phenotype (5e-06), strongly suggesting that the variant is benign. The variant, c.355G>T has been reported in the literature in individuals affected with Congenital Heart Disease, and the same publication reports experimental evidence evaluating an impact on protein function that showed variant behaves equal to wildtype NKX2-5 (vanEngelen_2012). Two clinical diagnostic laboratories have submitted clinical-significance assessments for this variant to ClinVar after 2014 without evidence for independent evaluation and classified the variant as benign/likely benign. Based on the evidence outlined above, the variant was classified as benign.