3-37050632-C-A

Variant names:

• chr3-37050632-C-A
• rs267607893
• NM_000249.4:c.2250C>A

Variant summary

Our verdict is Pathogenic. The variant received 10 ACMG points: 10P and 0B. PVS1 PM2

The NM_000249.4(MLH1):​c.2250C>A​(p.Tyr750*) variant causes a stop gained change involving the alteration of a non-conserved nucleotide. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.000000684 in 1,461,816 control chromosomes in the GnomAD database, with no homozygous occurrence. In-silico tool predicts a benign outcome for this variant. Variant has been reported in ClinVar as Uncertain significance (★★★). Synonymous variant affecting the same amino acid position (i.e. Y750Y) has been classified as Likely benign.

• Frequency:
  • Genomes: not found (cov: 32)
  • Exomes 𝑓: 6.8e-7 (0 hom.)
• Consequence: MLH1 NM_000249.4 stop_gained
• Clinical Significance: Uncertain significance reviewed by expert panel P:3 U:1
• Conservation: PhyloP100: 2.33
• Publications: 11 publications found

Genes affected

MLH1 (HGNC:7127): (mutL homolog 1) The protein encoded by this gene can heterodimerize with mismatch repair endonuclease PMS2 to form MutL alpha, part of the DNA mismatch repair system. When MutL alpha is bound by MutS beta and some accessory proteins, the PMS2 subunit of MutL alpha introduces a single-strand break near DNA mismatches, providing an entry point for exonuclease degradation. The encoded protein is also involved in DNA damage signaling and can heterodimerize with DNA mismatch repair protein MLH3 to form MutL gamma, which is involved in meiosis. This gene was identified as a locus frequently mutated in hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer (HNPCC). [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2017]

MLH1 Gene-Disease associations (from GenCC):

• Lynch syndrome

  Inheritance: AD Classification: DEFINITIVE, SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: G2P, ClinGen, Orphanet
• Lynch syndrome 2

  Inheritance: AD Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG Submitted by: Ambry Genetics, Genomics England PanelApp
• Muir-Torre syndrome

  Inheritance: AD Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG, MODERATE, SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Genomics England PanelApp, Ambry Genetics, G2P, Orphanet
• mismatch repair cancer syndrome 1

  Inheritance: AR Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG, SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Ambry Genetics, G2P, Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Orphanet, ClinGen
• Lynch syndrome 1

  Inheritance: AD Classification: STRONG Submitted by: Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae)
• ovarian cancer

  Inheritance: AD Classification: STRONG Submitted by: Genomics England PanelApp
• malignant pancreatic neoplasm

  Inheritance: AD Classification: MODERATE Submitted by: Genomics England PanelApp
• rhabdomyosarcoma

  Inheritance: AR Classification: MODERATE Submitted by: Genomics England PanelApp
• prostate cancer

  Inheritance: AD Classification: LIMITED Submitted by: Ambry Genetics
• breast cancer

  Inheritance: AD Classification: NO_KNOWN Submitted by: Ambry Genetics
• hereditary breast carcinoma

  Inheritance: AD Classification: NO_KNOWN Submitted by: ClinGen

ACMG classification

Our verdict: Pathogenic. The variant received 10 ACMG points.

• PVS1: Loss of function variant, product does not undergo nonsense mediated mRNA decay. Variant is located in the 3'-most exon, not predicted to undergo nonsense mediated mRNA decay. There are 21 pathogenic variants in the truncated region.
• PM2: Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	MANE	Protein	UniProt
MLH1	NM_000249.4	c.2250C>A	p.Tyr750*	stop_gained	Exon 19 of 19	ENST00000231790.8	NP_000240.1

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	TSL	MANE	Protein	Appris	UniProt
MLH1	ENST00000231790.8	c.2250C>A	p.Tyr750*	stop_gained	Exon 19 of 19	1	NM_000249.4	ENSP00000231790.3

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes Cov.: 32

GnomAD4 exome AF: 6.84e-7 AC: 1 AN: 1461816 Hom.: 0 Cov.: 31 AF XY: 0.00 AC XY: 0 AN XY: 727220

African (AFR) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 33476

American (AMR) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 44724

Ashkenazi Jewish (ASJ) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 26136

East Asian (EAS) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 39694

South Asian (SAS) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 86256

European-Finnish (FIN) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 53410

Middle Eastern (MID) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 5768

European-Non Finnish (NFE) AF: 8.99e-7 AC: 1 AN: 1111956

Other (OTH) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 60396

GnomAD4 genome Cov.: 32

Alfa AF: 0.00 Hom.: 0

ClinVar

Significance: Uncertain significance

Submissions summary: Pathogenic:3 Uncertain:1

Revision: reviewed by expert panel

Submissions by phenotype

Colorectal cancer, hereditary nonpolyposis, type 2 Pathogenic:1

Jul 25, 2023

Myriad Genetics, Inc.

Significance: Pathogenic

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This variant is considered pathogenic. This variant creates a termination codon and is predicted to result in premature protein truncation. -

Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal neoplasms Pathogenic:1

Sep 10, 2021

Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Labcorp

Significance: Pathogenic

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This sequence change creates a premature translational stop signal (p.Tyr750*) in the MLH1 gene. While this is not anticipated to result in nonsense mediated decay, it is expected to disrupt the last 7 amino acid(s) of the MLH1 protein. This variant is not present in population databases (ExAC no frequency). This premature translational stop signal has been observed in individual(s) with Lynch syndrome (PMID: 20233461). ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 90098). Experimental studies have shown that this premature translational stop signal affects MLH1 function (PMID: 20533529). This variant disrupts a region of the MLH1 protein in which other variant(s) (p.Lys751Serfs*3) have been determined to be pathogenic (PMID: 8797773, 18566915, 18931482, 24802709, 27295708). This suggests that this is a clinically significant region of the protein, and that variants that disrupt it are likely to be disease-causing. For these reasons, this variant has been classified as Pathogenic. -

Hereditary cancer-predisposing syndrome Pathogenic:1

Oct 10, 2024

Ambry Genetics

Significance: Pathogenic

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

The p.Y750* pathogenic mutation (also known as c.2250C>A), located in coding exon 19 of the MLH1 gene, results from a C to A substitution at nucleotide position 2250. This changes the amino acid from a tyrosine to a stop codon within coding exon 19. This alteration occurs at the 3' terminus of theMLH1 gene, is not expected to trigger nonsense-mediated mRNA decay, and only impacts the last 7 amino acids of the protein. However, premature stop codons are typically deleterious in nature and the impacted region is critical for protein function based on an internal structural analysis which suggests that this variant perturbs a known functional domain responsible for binding to as well as stabilizing PMS2 and removes a terminal cysteine residue shown to be involved in metal binding as part of a functional domain in PMS2 (Ambry internal data; Mohd AB et al. DNA Repair (Amst.) 2006 Mar;5(3):347-61; Smith CE et al. PLoS Genet. 2013 Oct;9(10):e1003869; Gueneau E et al. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 2013 Apr;20:461-8). This mutation was reported in individuals with Lynch syndrome-related tumors, including several meeting Amsterdam criteria and/or having mismatch repair-deficient tumors (Pigatto F et al. Hered Cancer Clin Pract, 2004 Nov;2:175-84; Ambry internal data). An in vitro mismatch repair (MMR) complementation assay demonstrated compromised relative MMR activity at 16% for this variant and decreased coexpression (23%) of PMS2 by co-immunoprecipitation upon transient expression in HEK293T cells, suggesting that this variant interferes with heterodimerization (Kosinski J et al. Hum. Mutat., 2010 Aug;31:975-82). This variant is considered to be rare based on population cohorts in the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD). Based on the supporting evidence, this variant is interpreted as a disease-causing mutation. -

Lynch syndrome Uncertain:1

Jun 21, 2019

International Society for Gastrointestinal Hereditary Tumours (InSiGHT)

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: reviewed by expert panel

Collection Method: curation

Insufficient evidence: premature termination codon outside of known functional domain; Nonsense variant after codon 743 in MLH1 = VUS -

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
BayesDel_addAF	Pathogenic	0.51	D
BayesDel_noAF	Pathogenic	0.50
CADD	Pathogenic	36
DANN	Uncertain	1.0
Eigen	Uncertain	0.68
Eigen_PC	Uncertain	0.53
FATHMM_MKL	Uncertain	0.93	D
PhyloP100		2.3
Vest4		0.79
ClinPred		1.0	D
GERP RS		3.6
Mutation Taster		=0/200	disease causing

Splicing

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
SpliceAI score (max)		0.0		Details are displayed if max score is > 0.2

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

Other links and lift over

dbSNP: rs267607893; hg19: chr3-37092123;