Genetic Variant GJA3:p.Asp241Glu (chr13-20142566-G-C) – ACMG Classification: Likely_benign (-3 pts)

Variant summary

Our verdict is Likely benign. The variant received -3 ACMG points: 3P and 6B. PM2PP2BP4_ModerateBS2

The NM_021954.4(GJA3):c.723C>G(p.Asp241Glu) variant causes a missense change involving the alteration of a non-conserved nucleotide. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.00000347 in 1,439,554 control chromosomes in the GnomAD database, with no homozygous occurrence. In-silico tool predicts a benign outcome for this variant. 15/22 in silico tools predict a benign outcome for this variant. No clinical diagnostic laboratories have submitted clinical-significance assessments for this variant to ClinVar. Another nucleotide change resulting in the same amino acid substitution has been previously reported as Uncertain significance in ClinVar. Another variant affecting the same amino acid position, but resulting in a different missense (i.e. D241N) has been classified as Uncertain significance.

Frequency

Genomes: not found (cov: 33)

Exomes 𝑓: 0.0000035 ( 0 hom. )

Consequence

GJA3
NM_021954.4 missense

Scores

Clinical Significance

Not reported in ClinVar

Conservation

PhyloP100: -0.267

Publications

0 publications found

Variant links:

Genes affected

GJA3 (HGNC:4277): (gap junction protein alpha 3) The protein encoded by this gene is a connexin and is a component of lens fiber gap junctions. Defects in this gene are a cause of zonular pulverulent cataract type 3 (CZP3). [provided by RefSeq, Jan 2010]

GJA3 Gene-Disease associations (from GenCC):

cataract 14 multiple types
Inheritance: AD Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG Submitted by: G2P, Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae)
early-onset nuclear cataract
Inheritance: AD Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet
early-onset posterior polar cataract
Inheritance: AD Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet
pulverulent cataract
Inheritance: AD Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet

GJA3 links:

ENSG00000299362 (HGNC:):

ENSG00000299362 links:

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ACMG classification

Classification was made for transcript

Our verdict: Likely_benign. The variant received -3 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 27 curated pathogenic missense variants (we use a threshold of 10). The gene has 6 curated benign missense variants. Gene score misZ: 1.7112 (below the threshold of 3.09). Trascript score misZ: -0.026578 (below the threshold of 3.09). GenCC associations: The gene is linked to early-onset nuclear cataract, pulverulent cataract, early-onset posterior polar cataract, cataract 14 multiple types.

BP4

Computational evidence support a benign effect (MetaRNN=0.09383792).

BS2

High AC in GnomAdExome4 at 5 AD gene.

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	MANE	Protein	UniProt
GJA3	NM_021954.4 link	c.723C>G	p.Asp241Glu	missense_variant	Exon 2 of 2	ENST00000241125.4	NP_068773.2	Q9Y6H8
GJA3	XM_011535048.3 link	c.723C>G	p.Asp241Glu	missense_variant	Exon 2 of 2		XP_011533350.1	Q9Y6H8

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	TSL	MANE	Protein	Appris	UniProt
GJA3	ENST00000241125.4 link	c.723C>G	p.Asp241Glu	missense_variant	Exon 2 of 2	3	NM_021954.4	ENSP00000241125.3		Q9Y6H8
ENSG00000299362	ENST00000762843.1 link	n.133+4564G>C		intron_variant	Intron 1 of 1

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes

Cov.:

GnomAD4 exome

AF:

0.00000347

AC:

AN:

1439554

Hom.:

Cov.:

AF XY:

0.00000420

AC XY:

AN XY:

714452

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African (AFR)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

32980

American (AMR)

AF:

0.0000244

AC:

AN:

40928

Ashkenazi Jewish (ASJ)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

25784

East Asian (EAS)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

38370

South Asian (SAS)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

84060

European-Finnish (FIN)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

50428

Middle Eastern (MID)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

5702

European-Non Finnish (NFE)

AF:

0.00000363

AC:

AN:

1101764

Other (OTH)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

59538

Allele Balance Distribution

Red line indicates average allele balance

Average allele balance: 0.485

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

Benign

0.079

BayesDel_addAF

Benign

-0.074

BayesDel_noAF

Benign

-0.34

CADD

Benign

0.70

(source)

DANN

Benign

0.89

DEOGEN2

Benign

0.028

Eigen

Benign

-1.5

Eigen_PC

Benign

-1.5

FATHMM_MKL

Benign

0.12

LIST_S2

Benign

0.16

M_CAP

Pathogenic

0.31

MetaRNN

Benign

0.094

MetaSVM

Uncertain

-0.096

MutationAssessor

Uncertain

2.3

PhyloP100

-0.27

PrimateAI

Benign

0.45

PROVEAN

Benign

-0.91

REVEL

Benign

0.15

Sift

Benign

0.17

Sift4G

Benign

0.70

Polyphen

0.036

Vest4

0.026

MutPred

0.33

Gain of glycosylation at P240 (P = 0.1261);

MVP

0.55

MPC

0.87

ClinPred

0.11

GERP RS

-3.9

Varity_R

0.041

gMVP

0.56

Mutation Taster

=95/5

polymorphism

(source)

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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