QARS1 p.Arg509Gln

Variant names:

• chr3-49099432-C-T
• NM_005051.3:c.1527-1G>A

Your query was ambiguous. Multiple possible variants found:

• chr3-49099432-C-T
• chr3-49099431-CC-TT

Variant summary

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

The NM_005051.3(QARS1):​c.1527-1G>A variant causes a splice acceptor, intron change involving the alteration of a conserved nucleotide. The variant was absent in control chromosomes in GnomAD project. 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: 32)
• Consequence: QARS1 NM_005051.3 splice_acceptor, intron
• Scores: Splicing: ADA: 1.000
• Clinical Significance: Not reported in ClinVar
• Conservation: PhyloP100: 7.35
• Publications: 0 publications found

Genes affected

QARS1 (HGNC:9751): (glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase 1) Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases catalyze the aminoacylation of tRNA by their cognate amino acid. Because of their central role in linking amino acids with nucleotide triplets contained in tRNAs, aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are thought to be among the first proteins that appeared in evolution. In metazoans, 9 aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases specific for glutamine (gln), glutamic acid (glu), and 7 other amino acids are associated within a multienzyme complex. Although present in eukaryotes, glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase (QARS) is absent from many prokaryotes, mitochondria, and chloroplasts, in which Gln-tRNA(Gln) is formed by transamidation of the misacylated Glu-tRNA(Gln). Glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase belongs to the class-I aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase family. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Jan 2013]

QARS1 Gene-Disease associations (from GenCC):

• diffuse cerebral and cerebellar atrophy - intractable seizures - progressive microcephaly syndrome

  Inheritance: AR Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG, SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: ClinGen, Orphanet, G2P
• microcephaly-short stature-intellectual disability-facial dysmorphism syndrome

  Inheritance: AR Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet

ACMG classification

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

• PVS1: Splicing +-2 bp (donor or acceptor) variant, LoF is a know mechanism of disease, Cryptic splice site detected, with MaxEntScore 6.1, offset of 1, new splice context is: accaccttcttatccacaAGgac. Cryptic site results in frameshift change. If cryptic site found is not functional and variant results in exon loss, it results in frameshift change.
• PM2: Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage

Variant Effect in Transcripts

ACMG analysis was done for transcript: NM_005051.3. You can select a different transcript below to see updated ACMG assignments.

RefSeq Transcripts

Sel.	Gene	Transcript	Tags	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon Rank	Protein	UniProt
	QARS1	NM_005051.3	MANE Select	c.1527-1G>A		splice_acceptor intron	N/A	NP_005042.1	P47897-1
	QARS1	NM_001272073.2		c.1494-1G>A		splice_acceptor intron	N/A	NP_001259002.1	P47897-2
	QARS1	NR_073590.2		n.1502-1G>A		splice_acceptor intron	N/A

Ensembl Transcripts

Sel.	Gene	Transcript	Tags	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon Rank	Protein	UniProt
	QARS1	ENST00000306125.12	TSL:1 MANE Select	c.1527-1G>A		splice_acceptor intron	N/A	ENSP00000307567.6	P47897-1
	QARS1	ENST00000464962.6	TSL:1	c.1092-1G>A		splice_acceptor intron	N/A	ENSP00000489011.1	B4DDN1
	QARS1	ENST00000965966.1		c.1650-1G>A		splice_acceptor intron	N/A	ENSP00000636025.1

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes Cov.: 32

GnomAD4 exome Cov.: 35

GnomAD4 genome Cov.: 32

ClinVar

Not reported in ClinVar

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.9

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
BayesDel_addAF	Pathogenic	0.63	D
BayesDel_noAF	Pathogenic	0.20
CADD	Pathogenic	32
DANN	Uncertain	0.99
Eigen	Pathogenic	1.1
Eigen_PC	Pathogenic	0.96
FATHMM_MKL	Pathogenic	0.98	D
PhyloP100		7.3
PromoterAI		-0.0044	Neutral
Mutation Taster		=13/87	disease causing

Splicing

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
dbscSNV1_ADA	Pathogenic	1.0
dbscSNV1_RF	Pathogenic	0.95
SpliceAI score (max)		1.0		Details are displayed if max score is > 0.2
DS_AG_spliceai		0.87		Position offset: -2
DS_AL_spliceai		1.0		Position offset: -1

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

MaxEntScan Visualizer can be used to analyze the impact of this mutation on the neighboring sequence.

Other links and lift over

hg19: chr3-49136865;