ClinVar

Description

In summary, the currently available evidence indicates that the variant is pathogenic, but additional data are needed to prove that conclusively. Therefore, this variant has been classified as Likely Pathogenic. This variant affects a cysteine residue located within an epidermal-growth-factor (EGF)–like domain of the FBN1 protein. Cysteine residues in these domains have been shown to be involved in the formation of disulfide bridges, which are critical for FBN1 protein structure and stability (PMID: 10486319, 3495735, 4750422, 16677079). In addition, missense substitutions within the FBN1 EGF-like domains affecting cysteine residues are significantly overrepresented among patients with Marfan syndrome (PMID: 16571647, 17701892). Algorithms developed to predict the effect of missense changes on protein structure and function are either unavailable or do not agree on the potential impact of this missense change (SIFT: "Deleterious"; PolyPhen-2: "Probably Damaging"; Align-GVGD: "Class C0"). This variant has been observed in individual(s) with Marfan syndrome (PMID: 30076350). ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 430389). This variant is not present in population databases (ExAC no frequency). This sequence change replaces cysteine with arginine at codon 1947 of the FBN1 protein (p.Cys1947Arg). The cysteine residue is highly conserved and there is a large physicochemical difference between cysteine and arginine.