Description
The T438A variant has been published previously in association with an NLRP3-associated disorder (Zeft et al., 2007). The 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. T438A is a non-conservative amino acid substitution, which is likely to impact secondary protein structure as these residues differ in polarity, charge, size and/or other properties. This substitution occurs at a position within the NACHT domain where amino acids with similar properties to Threonine are tolerated across species. The NACHT domain is a known locus for pathogenic variants (Masters et al., 2009), and in silico analysis predicts this variant is probably damaging to the protein structure/function. Additionally, T438A has been reported to impair expression of the NLRP3 protein; however, the authors did not publish their data (Guo et al., 2016). Missense variants in the same residue (T438P/I/N) and in nearby residues (T435I, K437E, A441P/T/V, Y443H) have been reported in the Human Gene Mutation Database in association with NLRP3-associated disorders (Stenson et al., 2014), supporting the functional importance of this region of the protein. Therefore, this variant is likely pathogenic.
| # | Sample | Method | Observation |
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| Origin | Affected | Number tested | Tissue | Purpose | Method | Individuals | Allele frequency | Families | Co-occurrences |
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| 1 | germline | yes | not provided | not provided | not provided | | not provided | not provided | not provided | not provided |
