ClinVar

Description

The c.5745dupT pathogenic mutation, located in coding exon 24 of the DSP gene, results from a duplication of T at nucleotide position 5745. This changes the amino acid at position 1916 from a lysine to a stop codon (p.K1916*). Alterations in DSP that result in haploinsufficiency or protein truncation have been reported in patients with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) (Fressart V et al. Europace. 2010;12(6):861-8; Elliott P et al. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2010;3(4):314-22; Quarta G et al. Circulation. 2011;123(23):2701-9; Garcia-Pavia P et al. Heart. 2011;97(21):1744-52; Rasmussen TB et al. Clin Genet. 2013;84(1):20-30; Pugh TJ et al. Genet Med. 2014;16(8):601-8). This alteration occurs at the 3' terminus of DSP and is not expected to trigger nonsense-mediated mRNA decay; however, it results in the removal of 956 amino acids comprising approximately 33% of the protein. While the exact functional impact of these removed amino acids is unknown, the eliminated regions include the plakin repeats, plectin domains, tandem repeats of G-S-R-[SR], and domains required for keratin and intermediate filament interaction. In addition, several alterations more C-terminal than this variant have been detected in ARVC and DCM cohorts (e.g., c.8077_8080delAAG and c.8188delC in Walsh R et al. Genet. Med. 2017;19:192-203). Based on the supporting evidence, this alteration is interpreted as a disease-causing mutation.