ClinVar

Description

This sequence change replaces threonine, which is neutral and polar, with alanine, which is neutral and non-polar, at codon 86 of the GJB2 protein (p.Thr86Ala). This variant is not present in population databases (gnomAD no frequency). This missense change has been observed in individual(s) with nonsyndromic hearing loss (PMID: 25149764). 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 GJB2 protein function. This variant disrupts the p.Thr86 amino acid residue in GJB2. Other variant(s) that disrupt this residue have been determined to be pathogenic (PMID: 19384972, 26763877, 30896630, 31160754). This suggests that this residue is clinically significant, and that variants that disrupt this residue are likely to be disease-causing. In summary, the currently available evidence indicates that the variant is pathogenic, but additional data are needed to prove that conclusively. Therefore, this variant has been classified as Likely Pathogenic.