ClinVar

Description

The D305Y variant has not been published as a pathogenic variant, nor has it been reported as a benign polymorphism to our knowledge. It 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 D305Y variant 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 that is conserved across species. In silico analysis predicts this variant is probably damaging to the protein structure/function. A different amino acid substitution at the same position (D305G) and nearby missense variant (E299K, W309R, G310V) have been reported in the Human Gene Mutation Database in association with benign neonatal epilepsy (Stenson et al., 2014), supporting the functional importance of this region of the protein. Therefore, this variant is a strong candidate for a pathogenic variant, however the possibility that it is a benign variant cannot be excluded