ClinVar

Description

The Q61H pathogenic variant in the NRAS gene has been reported previously as a somatic variant in multiple types of malignancies including high hyperdiploid childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia, early T-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, and melanoma, but has not been reported in the germline (Paulsson et al., 2008; Zhang et al., 2012; Ekedahl et al., 2013). The Q61H variant was not observed in approximately 6,500 individuals of European and African American ancestry in the NHLBI Exome Sequencing Project, indicating it is not a common benign variant in these populations. The Q61H variant is a semi-conservative amino acid substitution, which may impact secondary protein structure as these residues differ in some properties. This substitution occurs at a position that is conserved across species. In silico analysis predicts this variant is probably damaging to the protein structure/function.