ClinVar

Description

The PCDH19 p.Thr444Ala variant was not identified in the literature nor was it identified in Cosmic or LOVD 3.0. The variant was identified in dbSNP (ID: rs201671718) and in ClinVar (classified as likely benign by GeneDx and Uncertain significance by Genetic Services Laboratory, University of Chicago). The variant was also identified in control databases in 26 of 203692 chromosomes (8 hemizygous) at a frequency of 0.000128 (Genome Aggregation Database Feb 27, 2017). The variant was observed in the following populations: European (non-Finnish) in 25 of 92285 chromosomes (freq: 0.0002709) and Other in 1 of 5270 chromosome (freq: 0.0001898), but not in the African, Latino, Ashkenazi Jewish, East Asian, European (Finnish), and South Asian populations. The variant occurs outside of the splicing consensus sequence and in silico or computational prediction software programs (SpliceSiteFinder, MaxEntScan, NNSPLICE, GeneSplicer) do not predict a difference in splicing. The p.Thr444 residue is conserved across mammals and other organisms, and four out of five computational analyses (PolyPhen-2, SIFT, AlignGVGD, BLOSUM, MutationTaster) suggest that the variant may impact the protein; however, this information is not predictive enough to assume 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.