2-29222516-CC-AA

Variant names:

• chr2-29222516-CC-AA
• rs1553394254
• NM_004304.5:c.3450_3450+1delGGinsTT

Variant summary

Our verdict is Uncertain significance. The variant received 1 ACMG points: 2P and 1B. PVS1_Moderate BP6

The NM_004304.5(ALK):​c.3450_3450+1delGGinsTT​(p.Lys1150Asn) variant causes a splice donor, missense, splice region, intron change involving the alteration of a conserved nucleotide. The variant was absent in control chromosomes in GnomAD project. It is difficult to determine the true allele frequency of this variant because it is of type MNV, and the frequency of such variant types in population databases may be underestimated and unreliable. Variant has been reported in ClinVar as Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity (no stars). Another variant affecting the same amino acid position, but resulting in a different missense (i.e. K1150T) has been classified as Uncertain significance.

• Frequency: Genomes: not found (cov: 32)
• Consequence: ALK NM_004304.5 splice_donor, missense, splice_region, intron
• Clinical Significance: Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity criteria provided, conflicting classifications U:1 B:1
• Conservation: PhyloP100: 7.88
• Publications: 0 publications found

Genes affected

ALK (HGNC:427): (ALK receptor tyrosine kinase) This gene encodes a receptor tyrosine kinase, which belongs to the insulin receptor superfamily. This protein comprises an extracellular domain, an hydrophobic stretch corresponding to a single pass transmembrane region, and an intracellular kinase domain. It plays an important role in the development of the brain and exerts its effects on specific neurons in the nervous system. This gene has been found to be rearranged, mutated, or amplified in a series of tumours including anaplastic large cell lymphomas, neuroblastoma, and non-small cell lung cancer. The chromosomal rearrangements are the most common genetic alterations in this gene, which result in creation of multiple fusion genes in tumourigenesis, including ALK (chromosome 2)/EML4 (chromosome 2), ALK/RANBP2 (chromosome 2), ALK/ATIC (chromosome 2), ALK/TFG (chromosome 3), ALK/NPM1 (chromosome 5), ALK/SQSTM1 (chromosome 5), ALK/KIF5B (chromosome 10), ALK/CLTC (chromosome 17), ALK/TPM4 (chromosome 19), and ALK/MSN (chromosome X).[provided by RefSeq, Jan 2011]

ALK Gene-Disease associations (from GenCC):

• neuroblastoma, susceptibility to, 3

  Inheritance: AD Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG Submitted by: G2P, ClinGen, Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Ambry Genetics

ACMG classification

Our verdict: Uncertain_significance. The variant received 1 ACMG points.

• PVS1: Splicing +-2 bp (donor or acceptor) variant, product NOT destroyed by NMD, known LOF gene, truncates exone, which is 0.01871273 fraction of the gene. Cryptic splice site detected, with MaxEntScore 3.2, offset of -48, new splice context is: cagGTgtcc. Cryptic site results in inframe change. If cryptic site found is not functional and variant results in exon loss, it results in frameshift change.
• BP6: Variant 2-29222516-CC-AA is Benign according to our data. Variant chr2-29222516-CC-AA is described in ClinVar as Conflicting_classifications_of_pathogenicity. ClinVar VariationId is 538231.

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	MANE	Protein	UniProt
ALK	NM_004304.5	c.3450_3450+1delGGinsTT	p.Lys1150Asn	splice_donor_variant, missense_variant, splice_region_variant, intron_variant		ENST00000389048.8	NP_004295.2
ALK	NM_001353765.2	c.246_246+1delGGinsTT	p.Lys82Asn	splice_donor_variant, missense_variant, splice_region_variant, intron_variant			NP_001340694.1

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	TSL	MANE	Protein	Appris	UniProt
ALK	ENST00000389048.8	c.3450_3450+1delGGinsTT	p.Lys1150Asn	splice_donor_variant, missense_variant, splice_region_variant, intron_variant		1	NM_004304.5	ENSP00000373700.3

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes Cov.: 32

We have no GnomAD4 exomes data on this position. Probably position not covered by the project.

GnomAD4 genome Cov.: 32

ClinVar

Significance: Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity

Submissions summary: Uncertain:1 Benign:1

Revision: criteria provided, conflicting classifications

Submissions by phenotype

Neuroblastoma, susceptibility to, 3 Uncertain:1

Dec 21, 2023

Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Labcorp

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This sequence change affects a splice site in intron 21 of the ALK gene. It is expected to disrupt RNA splicing. Variants that disrupt the donor or acceptor splice site typically lead to a loss of protein function (PMID: 16199547), however the current clinical and genetic evidence is not sufficient to establish whether loss-of-function variants in ALK cause disease. Information on the frequency of this variant in the gnomAD database is not available, as this variant may be reported differently in the database. This variant has not been reported in the literature in individuals affected with ALK-related conditions. ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 538231). 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.

Hereditary cancer-predisposing syndrome Benign:1

Aug 21, 2025

Ambry Genetics

Significance: Likely benign

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This alteration is classified as likely benign based on a combination of the following: seen in unaffected individuals, population frequency, intact protein function, lack of segregation with disease, co-occurrence, RNA analysis, in silico models, amino acid conservation, lack of disease association in case-control studies, and/or the mechanism of disease or impacted region is inconsistent with a known cause of pathogenicity.

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
PhyloP100		7.9

Splicing

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

Other links and lift over

dbSNP: rs1553394254; hg19: chr2-29445382;