ClinVar

Description

This sequence change replaces arginine, which is basic and polar, with cysteine, which is neutral and slightly polar, at codon 347 of the CYP17A1 protein (p.Arg347Cys). This variant is present in population databases (rs104894149, gnomAD 0.004%). This missense change has been observed in individual(s) with isolated 17,20-lyase deficiency (PMID: 12466376). In at least one individual the data is consistent with being in trans (on the opposite chromosome) from a pathogenic variant. ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 1794). 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 CYP17A1 protein function with a positive predictive value of 95%. Experimental studies have shown that this missense change affects CYP17A1 function (PMID: 12466376). This variant disrupts the p.Arg347 amino acid residue in CYP17A1. Other variant(s) that disrupt this residue have been determined to be pathogenic (PMID: 9326943, 9601054, 12466376, 27426448). 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.