ClinVar

Description

The CFTR p.Thr438Ala variant was not identified in the Cosmic or MutDB databases but was identified in dbSNP (ID: rs201434579), ClinVar (reported as a VUS by Emory and Illumina and benign by the Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine at the Children's Mercy Hospital and Clinics), Clinvitae and LOVD 3.0. The variant was identified in control databases in 910 of 243424 chromosomes at a frequency of 0.003738 increasing the likelihood this could be a low frequency benign variant (Genome Aggregation Database Feb 27, 2017). The variant was observed in the following populations: African in 184 of 18116 chromosomes (freq: 0.01016), European (Finnish) in 195 of 20214 chromosomes (freq: 0.009647), Other in 46 of 6026 chromosomes (freq: 0.007634), European (non-Finnish) in 407 of 108932 chromosomes (freq: 0.003736), East Asian in 26 of 18052 chromosomes (freq: 0.00144), Latino in 42 of 33100 chromosomes (freq: 0.001269) and Ashkenazi Jewish in 10 of 9894 chromosomes (freq: 0.001011), but was not observed in the South Asian population. Trujillano et al. (2015) identified this variant in the heterozygous state in 1/177 cystic fibrosis patients but suggested the variant to be neutral (Trujillano_2015_PMID: 26436105). The p.Thr438 residue is not conserved in mammals and computational analyses (PolyPhen-2, SIFT, AlignGVGD, BLOSUM, MutationTaster) do not suggest a high likelihood of impact to the protein; however, this information is not predictive enough to rule out pathogenicity. In summary, based on the above information the clinical significance of this variant cannot be determined with certainty at this time. This variant is classified as a variant of uncertain significance.