ClinVar

Description

The BAG3 c.211C>T; p.Arg71Trp variant (rs387906874) is reported in the literature in several individuals affected with cardiomyopathy (Norton 2011, Cowan 2018, van Lint 2019). This variant is also reported in ClinVar (Variation ID: 30396). This variant is found in the Finnish European population with an allele frequency of 0.07% (17/25104 alleles) in the Genome Aggregation Database. The arginine at codon 71 is moderately conserved, and computational analyses are uncertain whether this variant is neutral or deleterious (REVEL: 0.37). Due to limited information, the clinical significance of the p.Arg71Trp variant is uncertain at this time. Pathogenic variants in BAG3 are associated with autosomal dominant dilated cardiomyopathy 1HH (MIM: 613881) and myofibrillar myopathy 6 (MIM: 612954). References: Norton et al. Genome-wide studies of copy number variation and exome sequencing identify rare variants in BAG3 as a cause of dilated cardiomyopathy. Am J Hum Genet. 2011 Mar 11;88(3):273-82. Cowan et al. Multigenic Disease and Bilineal Inheritance in Dilated Cardiomyopathy Is Illustrated in Nonsegregating LMNA Pedigrees. Circ Genom Precis Med. 2018 Jul;11(7):e002038. van Lint et al. Large next-generation sequencing gene panels in genetic heart disease: yield of pathogenic variants and variants of unknown significance. Neth Heart J. 2019 Jun;27(6):304-309.