Genetic Variant NEFL:p.Ala149Glu (chr8-24956070-G-T) – ACMG Classification: Uncertain_significance (4 pts)

Variant summary

Our verdict is Uncertain significance. The variant received 4 ACMG points: 4P and 0B. PM2PP2PP3

The NM_006158.5(NEFL):c.446C>A(p.Ala149Glu) variant causes a missense change. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.000000689 in 1,450,908 control chromosomes in the GnomAD database, with no homozygous occurrence. In-silico tool predicts a pathogenic outcome for this variant. No clinical diagnostic laboratories have submitted clinical-significance assessments for this variant to ClinVar. Another variant affecting the same amino acid position, but resulting in a different missense (i.e. A149V) has been classified as Uncertain significance.

Frequency

Genomes: not found (cov: 32)

Exomes 𝑓: 6.9e-7 ( 0 hom. )

Consequence

NEFL
NM_006158.5 missense

Scores

Clinical Significance

Not reported in ClinVar

Conservation

PhyloP100: 6.85

Publications

0 publications found

Variant links:

Genes affected

NEFL (HGNC:7739): (neurofilament light chain) Neurofilaments are type IV intermediate filament heteropolymers composed of light, medium, and heavy chains. Neurofilaments comprise the axoskeleton and they functionally maintain the neuronal caliber. They may also play a role in intracellular transport to axons and dendrites. This gene encodes the light chain neurofilament protein. Mutations in this gene cause Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease types 1F (CMT1F) and 2E (CMT2E), disorders of the peripheral nervous system that are characterized by distinct neuropathies. A pseudogene has been identified on chromosome Y. [provided by RefSeq, Oct 2008]

NEFL Gene-Disease associations (from GenCC):

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
Inheritance: AD Classification: DEFINITIVE Submitted by: ClinGen
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2
Inheritance: AR Classification: DEFINITIVE Submitted by: ClinGen
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1F
Inheritance: AR, AD Classification: STRONG, SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Orphanet
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2E
Inheritance: AD Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2B5
Inheritance: AR Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet

NEFL links:

ENSG00000272157 (HGNC:):

ENSG00000272157 links:

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ACMG classification

Classification was made for transcript

Our verdict: Uncertain_significance. The variant received 4 ACMG points.

PM2

Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage;

PP2

Missense variant in the gene, where a lot of missense mutations are associated with disease in ClinVar. The gene has 19 curated pathogenic missense variants (we use a threshold of 10). The gene has 5 curated benign missense variants. Trascript score misZ: 0.63774 (below the threshold of 3.09). GenCC associations: The gene is linked to Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2B5, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2E, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1F.

PP3

MetaRNN computational evidence supports a deleterious effect, 0.788

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	MANE	Protein	UniProt
NEFL	NM_006158.5 link	c.446C>A	p.Ala149Glu	missense_variant	Exon 1 of 4	ENST00000610854.2	NP_006149.2	P07196

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	TSL	MANE	Protein	UniProt
NEFL	ENST00000610854.2 link	c.446C>A	p.Ala149Glu	missense_variant	Exon 1 of 4	1	NM_006158.5	ENSP00000482169.2	P07196
ENSG00000272157	ENST00000607735.3 link	n.380G>T		non_coding_transcript_exon_variant	Exon 1 of 1	6
NEFL	ENST00000615973.1 link	n.652C>A		non_coding_transcript_exon_variant	Exon 1 of 1	6

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes

Cov.:

GnomAD4 exome

AF:

6.89e-7

AC:

AN:

1450908

Hom.:

Cov.:

AF XY:

0.00000139

AC XY:

AN XY:

721762

show subpopulations

⚠️ The allele balance in gnomAD version 4 Exomes is significantly skewed from the expected value of 0.5.

African (AFR)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

33384

American (AMR)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

44134

Ashkenazi Jewish (ASJ)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

25962

East Asian (EAS)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

39506

South Asian (SAS)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

85262

European-Finnish (FIN)

AF:

0.0000214

AC:

AN:

46644

Middle Eastern (MID)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

5760

European-Non Finnish (NFE)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

1110114

Other (OTH)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

60142

⚠️ The allele balance in gnomAD4 Exomes is highly skewed from 0.5 (p-value = 0), which strongly suggests a high chance of mosaicism in these individuals.

Allele Balance Distribution

Red line indicates average allele balance

Average allele balance: 0.225

Heterozygous variant carriers

0.00

0.20

0.40

0.60

0.80

0.95

Allele balance

GnomAD4 genome

Cov.:

ClinVar

Not reported in ClinVar

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name

Calibrated prediction

Score

Prediction

AlphaMissense

Uncertain

0.56

BayesDel_addAF

Pathogenic

0.28

BayesDel_noAF

Pathogenic

0.17

CADD

Pathogenic

(source)

DANN

Benign

0.97

DEOGEN2

Uncertain

0.50

T;.;T

FATHMM_MKL

Uncertain

0.97

LIST_S2

Benign

0.31

T;T;T

MetaRNN

Pathogenic

0.79

D;D;D

PhyloP100

6.9

PrimateAI

Uncertain

0.59

Sift4G

Benign

0.65

T;.;T

Polyphen

0.99

D;.;.

Vest4

0.63

MVP

0.80

GERP RS

5.5

Varity_R

0.81

gMVP

0.57

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

Publications

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Variant summary

Frequency

Consequence

Scores

Clinical Significance

Conservation

Publications

ACMG classification

Transcripts

RefSeq

Ensembl

Frequencies

ClinVar

Computational scores

Splicing

Publications

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