ClinVar

Description

This sequence change replaces histidine, which is basic and polar, with glutamine, which is neutral and polar, at codon 20 of the MVK protein (p.His20Gln). This variant is not present in population databases (gnomAD no frequency). This missense change has been observed in individual(s) with autosomal recessive mevalonate kinase deficiency (PMID: 15536479, 34145613). 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: 97602). 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 MVK protein function. This variant disrupts the p.His20 amino acid residue in MVK. Other variant(s) that disrupt this residue have been determined to be pathogenic (PMID: 11313769, 27213830, 28501347). 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.