ClinVar

Description

This sequence change replaces arginine, which is basic and polar, with serine, which is neutral and polar, at codon 79 of the VHL protein (p.Arg79Ser). This variant is not present in population databases (gnomAD no frequency). This variant has not been reported in the literature in individuals affected with VHL-related conditions. ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 2014245). 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) performed at Invitae indicates that this missense variant is expected to disrupt VHL protein function with a positive predictive value of 95%. This variant disrupts the p.Arg79 amino acid residue in VHL. Other variant(s) that disrupt this residue have been observed in individuals with VHL-related conditions (PMID: 15642680, 24555745), which suggests that this may be a clinically significant amino acid residue. In summary, the available evidence is currently insufficient to determine the role of this variant in disease. Therefore, it has been classified as a Variant of Uncertain Significance.