Description
Found in a 23-year-old female with unexplained postpartum sudden cardiac arrest, along with 5 other VUSs. p.Val230Met (c.688G>A) in exon 3 of the GAA gene (NM_000152.3) Chromosome location 17-78079689-G-A Based on the information reviewed below, we classify this as a Variant of Uncertain Significance (VUS). This variant has not been reported in the literature in association with disease, according to the Invitae report. Of note: The GAA gene is associated with autosomal recessive glycogen storage disease type II (GSDII), also known as Pompe disease (MedGen UID: 5340). Our adult patient does not display any known clinical symptoms of Pompe, and because this is a recessive condition she would need to have a disease-causing variant in each allele in order to have the condition. This one variant in one allele would not be sufficient, even if it were pathogenic. This is a conservative amino acid change, resulting in the replacement of a nonpolar Valine with a nonpolar Methionine. Valine at this location is highly conserved across ~100 vertebrate species for which we have data. According to the Invitae report, algorithms developed to predict the effect of missense changes on protein structure and function do not agree on the potential impact of this missense change (SIFT: "Deleterious"; PolyPhen-2: "Possibly Damaging"; Align-GVGD: "Class C0"). This variant was reported in 74 individuals in the gnomAD database, which includes variant calls on ~140,000 individuals of European, African, Latino, South Asian, Ashkenazi, and East Asian descent. Overall MAF: 0.03%. It is most prevalent among individuals with either African or Latino ancestry (like our patient). The phenotype of those individuals is not publicly available. The dataset is comprised of multiple cohorts, some of which were recruited from the general population, others were enriched for common cardiovascular disease. The curators made an effort to exclude individuals with severe pediatric diseases.
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1 | germline | unknown | not provided | not provided | not provided | | not provided | not provided | not provided | not provided |