chr11-5226619-C-G

Variant summary

Our verdict is Likely pathogenic. The variant received 8 ACMG points: 8P and 0B. PM1PP3_StrongPP5_Moderate

The NM_000518.5(HBB):​c.273G>C​(p.Glu91Asp) variant causes a missense change involving the alteration of a non-conserved nucleotide. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.00000547 in 1,461,876 control chromosomes in the GnomAD database, with no homozygous occurrence. In-silico tool predicts a pathogenic outcome for this variant. Variant has been reported in ClinVar as Pathogenic (★). Another variant affecting the same amino acid position, but resulting in a different missense (i.e. E91G) has been classified as Uncertain significance.

Frequency

Genomes: not found (cov: 32)
Exomes 𝑓: 0.0000055 ( 0 hom. )

Consequence

HBB
NM_000518.5 missense

Scores

4
10
5

Clinical Significance

Pathogenic criteria provided, single submitter P:1O:1

Conservation

PhyloP100: 0.764

Publications

3 publications found
Variant links:
Genes affected
HBB (HGNC:4827): (hemoglobin subunit beta) The alpha (HBA) and beta (HBB) loci determine the structure of the 2 types of polypeptide chains in adult hemoglobin, Hb A. The normal adult hemoglobin tetramer consists of two alpha chains and two beta chains. Mutant beta globin causes sickle cell anemia. Absence of beta chain causes beta-zero-thalassemia. Reduced amounts of detectable beta globin causes beta-plus-thalassemia. The order of the genes in the beta-globin cluster is 5'-epsilon -- gamma-G -- gamma-A -- delta -- beta--3'. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
HBB Gene-Disease associations (from GenCC):
  • dominant beta-thalassemia
    Inheritance: AD Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG, SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet, Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), ClinGen
  • hemoglobin M disease
    Inheritance: AD Classification: DEFINITIVE, MODERATE, SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet, Ambry Genetics, ClinGen
  • beta thalassemia
    Inheritance: AR Classification: DEFINITIVE Submitted by: Myriad Women’s Health
  • beta-thalassemia HBB/LCRB
    Inheritance: AR, SD Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG Submitted by: Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), ClinGen, Ambry Genetics
  • sickle cell disease and related diseases
    Inheritance: AR Classification: DEFINITIVE Submitted by: ClinGen
  • erythrocytosis, familial, 6
    Inheritance: AD Classification: STRONG Submitted by: Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Genomics England PanelApp
  • Heinz body anemia
    Inheritance: AD Classification: STRONG Submitted by: Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae)
  • sickle cell disease
    Inheritance: AR Classification: STRONG, SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet, Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae)
  • hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin-beta-thalassemia syndrome
    Inheritance: AD Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet
  • beta-thalassemia intermedia
    Inheritance: AR Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet
  • beta-thalassemia major
    Inheritance: AR Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet
  • delta-beta-thalassemia
    Inheritance: AR Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet
  • hemoglobin C disease
    Inheritance: AR Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet
  • hemoglobin C-beta-thalassemia syndrome
    Inheritance: AR Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet
  • hemoglobin E disease
    Inheritance: AR Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet
  • hemoglobin E-beta-thalassemia syndrome
    Inheritance: AR Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet
  • hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin-sickle cell disease syndrome
    Inheritance: AR Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet
  • sickle cell-beta-thalassemia disease syndrome
    Inheritance: AR Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet
  • sickle cell-hemoglobin c disease syndrome
    Inheritance: AR Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet
  • sickle cell-hemoglobin d disease syndrome
    Inheritance: AR Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet
  • sickle cell-hemoglobin E disease syndrome
    Inheritance: AR Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet

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ACMG classification

Classification was made for transcript

Our verdict: Likely_pathogenic. The variant received 8 ACMG points.

PM1
In a hotspot region, there are 25 aminoacids with missense pathogenic changes in the window of +-8 aminoacids around while only 4 benign, 29 uncertain in NM_000518.5
PP3
MetaRNN computational evidence supports a deleterious effect, 0.956
PP5
Variant 11-5226619-C-G is Pathogenic according to our data. Variant chr11-5226619-C-G is described in ClinVar as Pathogenic. ClinVar VariationId is 15311.Status of the report is criteria_provided_single_submitter, 1 stars.

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene Transcript HGVSc HGVSp Effect Exon rank MANE Protein UniProt
HBBNM_000518.5 linkc.273G>C p.Glu91Asp missense_variant Exon 2 of 3 ENST00000335295.4 NP_000509.1

Ensembl

Gene Transcript HGVSc HGVSp Effect Exon rank TSL MANE Protein Appris UniProt
HBBENST00000335295.4 linkc.273G>C p.Glu91Asp missense_variant Exon 2 of 3 1 NM_000518.5 ENSP00000333994.3

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes
Cov.:
32
GnomAD4 exome
AF:
0.00000547
AC:
8
AN:
1461876
Hom.:
0
Cov.:
36
AF XY:
0.00000550
AC XY:
4
AN XY:
727244
show subpopulations
African (AFR)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
33480
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:
39700
South Asian (SAS)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
86258
European-Finnish (FIN)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
53420
Middle Eastern (MID)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
5768
European-Non Finnish (NFE)
AF:
0.00000719
AC:
8
AN:
1111994
Other (OTH)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
60396
Allele Balance Distribution
Red line indicates average allele balance
Average allele balance: 0.475
Heterozygous variant carriers
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Allele balance

Age Distribution

Exome Het
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GnomAD4 genome
Cov.:
32

ClinVar

Significance: Pathogenic
Submissions summary: Pathogenic:1Other:1
Revision: criteria provided, single submitter
LINK: link

Submissions by phenotype

Hemoglobinopathy Pathogenic:1
Sep 06, 2023
Women's Health and Genetics/Laboratory Corporation of America, LabCorp
Significance:Pathogenic
Review Status:criteria provided, single submitter
Collection Method:clinical testing

Variant summary: HBB c.273G>C (p.Glu91Asp) results in a conservative amino acid change located in the Globin domain (IPR000971) of the encoded protein sequence. Three of five in-silico tools predict a benign effect of the variant on protein function. The variant was absent in 251422 control chromosomes (gnomAD). The available data on variant occurrences in the general population are insufficient to allow any conclusion about variant significance. This amino acid change (also known as Pierre-Benite or beta Glu90Asp) can be caused by c.273G>T as well as c.273G>C and is known as a high oxygen affinity hemoglobin variant that has been reported in the literature in heterozygous individuals affected with erythrocytosis/polycythaemia (example, Baklouti_1988, Beard_2001, Percy_2009, Oliviera_2018). These data indicate that the variant is very likely to be associated with dominant familial erythrocytosis while not providing unequivocal conclusions about association of the variant with Beta Thalassemia or a Hemglobinopathy. To our knowledge, no homozygous or compound heterozygous occurrence of the variant with pathogenic HBB variants have been reported. At least one publication reports experimental evidence evaluating a sample from a heterozygous patient, finding indication of increased oxygen affinity (Beard_2001). The following publications have been ascertained in the context of this evaluation (PMID: 19734427, 11843890, 3384709, 29790589). One submitter has provided an entry for this variant to ClinVar after 2014 without a clinical significance assessment. Based on the evidence outlined above, the variant was classified as pathogenic. -

HEMOGLOBIN PIERRE-BENITE Other:1
Dec 12, 2017
OMIM
Significance:other
Review Status:no assertion criteria provided
Collection Method:literature only

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Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name
Calibrated prediction
Score
Prediction
AlphaMissense
Uncertain
0.46
BayesDel_addAF
Pathogenic
0.39
D
BayesDel_noAF
Pathogenic
0.32
CADD
Benign
21
DANN
Uncertain
1.0
DEOGEN2
Benign
0.042
T;T;.
Eigen
Benign
-0.21
Eigen_PC
Benign
-0.12
FATHMM_MKL
Uncertain
0.90
D
LIST_S2
Uncertain
0.90
.;D;D
M_CAP
Uncertain
0.11
D
MetaRNN
Pathogenic
0.96
D;D;D
MetaSVM
Uncertain
0.099
D
MutationAssessor
Uncertain
2.6
M;M;.
PhyloP100
0.76
PrimateAI
Uncertain
0.52
T
PROVEAN
Uncertain
-2.8
D;.;.
REVEL
Pathogenic
0.67
Sift
Uncertain
0.0010
D;.;.
Sift4G
Benign
0.30
T;.;.
Polyphen
0.035
B;B;.
Vest4
0.85
MutPred
0.90
Loss of ubiquitination at K96 (P = 0.1435);Loss of ubiquitination at K96 (P = 0.1435);Loss of ubiquitination at K96 (P = 0.1435);
MVP
0.95
MPC
0.13
ClinPred
0.95
D
GERP RS
2.3
PromoterAI
0.061
Neutral
Varity_R
0.66
gMVP
0.70
Mutation Taster
=2/98
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

Publications

Other links and lift over

dbSNP: rs35002698; hg19: chr11-5247849; API