ClinVar

Description

This sequence change replaces tryptophan, which is neutral and slightly polar, with arginine, which is basic and polar, at codon 172 of the GJB2 protein (p.Trp172Arg). This variant is present in population databases (rs770330002, gnomAD 0.02%). This missense change has been observed in individuals with autosomal recessive non-syndromic deafness (PMID: 18941476). ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 557805). Advanced modeling of protein sequence and biophysical properties (such as structural, functional, and spatial information, amino acid conservation, physicochemical variation, residue mobility, and thermodynamic stability) has been performed at Invitae for this missense variant, however the output from this modeling did not meet the statistical confidence thresholds required to predict the impact of this variant on GJB2 protein function. Experimental studies have shown that this missense change affects GJB2 function (PMID: 18941476). This variant disrupts the p.Trp172 amino acid residue in GJB2. Other variant(s) that disrupt this residue have been determined to be pathogenic (PMID: 15790391, 20201936, 31195736). This suggests that this residue is clinically significant, and that variants that disrupt this residue are likely to be disease-causing. For these reasons, this variant has been classified as Pathogenic.