16-173008-G-T

Position:

• chr16-173008-G-T

Variant summary

Our verdict is Likely pathogenic. Variant got 8 ACMG points: 8P and 0B. PVS1_Strong PP3_Strong

The NM_000517.6(HBA2):​c.95+1G>T variant causes a splice donor change. In-silico tool predicts a pathogenic outcome for this variant. 3/3 splice prediction tools predicting alterations to normal splicing. No clinical diagnostic laboratories have submitted clinical-significance assessments for this variant to ClinVar.

• Frequency: Genomes: not found (cov: 3)
• Consequence: HBA2 NM_000517.6 splice_donor
• Scores: Splicing: ADA: 1.000
• Clinical Significance: Not reported in ClinVar
• Conservation: PhyloP100: 5.07

Genes affected

HBA2 (HGNC:4824): (hemoglobin subunit alpha 2) The human alpha globin gene cluster located on chromosome 16 spans about 30 kb and includes seven loci: 5'- zeta - pseudozeta - mu - pseudoalpha-1 - alpha-2 - alpha-1 - theta - 3'. The alpha-2 (HBA2) and alpha-1 (HBA1) coding sequences are identical. These genes differ slightly over the 5' untranslated regions and the introns, but they differ significantly over the 3' untranslated regions. Two alpha chains plus two beta chains constitute HbA, which in normal adult life comprises about 97% of the total hemoglobin; alpha chains combine with delta chains to constitute HbA-2, which with HbF (fetal hemoglobin) makes up the remaining 3% of adult hemoglobin. Alpha thalassemias result from deletions of each of the alpha genes as well as deletions of both HBA2 and HBA1; some nondeletion alpha thalassemias have also been reported. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

ACMG classification

Verdict is Likely_pathogenic. Variant got 8 ACMG points.

• PVS1: Splicing +-2 bp (donor or acceptor) variant, product NOT destroyed by NMD, known LOF gene, truncates exone, which is 0.3053613 fraction of the gene. Cryptic splice site detected, with MaxEntScore 5.8, offset of -19, new splice context is: atgGTgcgg. Cryptic site results in frameshift change. If cryptic site found is not functional and variant results in exon loss, it results in inframe change.
• PP3: Splicing scoreres supports a deletorius effect: Scorers claiming Pathogenic: dbscSNV1_ADA, dbscSNV1_RF, max_spliceai. No scorers claiming Uncertain. No scorers claiming Benign.

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	#exon/exons	MANE	UniProt
HBA2	NM_000517.6	c.95+1G>T		splice_donor_variant		ENST00000251595.11

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	#exon/exons	TSL	MANE	Appris	UniProt
HBA2	ENST00000251595.11	c.95+1G>T		splice_donor_variant		1	NM_000517.6	P1
HBA2	ENST00000484216.1	c.64+1G>T		splice_donor_variant		1
HBA2	ENST00000482565.1	n.115G>T		non_coding_transcript_exon_variant	1/2	1
HBA2	ENST00000397806.1	c.-2+50G>T		intron_variant		2

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes Cov.: 3

GnomAD4 exome Cov.: 0

GnomAD4 genome Cov.: 3

ClinVar

Not reported in ClinVar

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
BayesDel_addAF	Pathogenic	0.60	D
BayesDel_noAF	Uncertain	0.080
CADD	Pathogenic	35
DANN	Uncertain	0.99
Eigen	Pathogenic	1.0
Eigen_PC	Pathogenic	0.81
FATHMM_MKL	Pathogenic	0.99	D
MutationTaster	Benign	1.0	D;D
GERP RS		3.9

Splicing

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
dbscSNV1_ADA	Pathogenic	1.0
dbscSNV1_RF	Pathogenic	0.93
SpliceAI score (max)		0.99		Details are displayed if max score is > 0.2
DS_DG_spliceai		0.29		Position offset: -50
DS_DL_spliceai		0.99		Position offset: -1

Find out detailed SpliceAI scores and Pangolin per-transcript scores at spliceailookup.broadinstitute.org

Publications

LitVar

Other links and lift over

dbSNP: rs63750158; hg19: chr16-223007;