ClinVar

Description

The PKHD1, p.Ser3505Arg variant was identified as a polymorphism in several studies (frequency information not specified) from Spanish, American and British individuals or families with ARPKD/congenital hepatic fibrosis/Caroli’s disease, and was present in 6 of 390 control chromosomes (frequency: 0.015) from healthy individuals (Rosetti 2003, Sharp 2005, Losekoot 2005). The variant was also identified in dbSNP (ID: rs139014478) “With benign allele”, Clinvitae database (classification benign), the ClinVar database (classification benign by Emory Genetics Laboratory and Invitae), RWTH AAachen University ARPKD database (classified as a polymorphism); in the 1000 Genomes Project in 22 of 5000 chromosomes (frequency: 0.0044), HAPMAP populations EUR in 11 of 1006 chromosomes (frequency: 0.0109) and AMR in 11 of 694 chromosomes (frequency: 0.0159), NHLBI GO Exome Sequencing Project in 97 of 8600 European American alleles (frequency: 0.0112) and in 10 of 4406 African American alleles (frequency: 0.0022), and in the Exome Aggregation Consortium database (March 14m 2016) in 695 of 66390 chromosomes/ 5 homozygous (frequency: 0.0104) from a population of European (Non-Finnish) individuals, in 68 of 11398 chromosomes/ 1 homozygous (frequency: 0.0104) from a population of Latino individuals and none in the East Asian, Other, African, South Asian, or European (Finnish) populations. The p.Ser3505 residue is mostly conserved in mammals and computational analyses (PolyPhen-2, SIFT, AlignGVGD, BLOSUM, MutationTaster) provide inconsistent predictions regarding the impact to the protein; this information is not very predictive of pathogenicity. In summary, based on the above information, this variant meets our laboratory criteria to be classified as benign.