chr14-87939931-A-AT

Position:

• chr14-87939931-A-AT

Variant summary

Our verdict is Pathogenic. Variant got 14 ACMG points: 14P and 0B. PVS1_Strong PM2 PP5_Very_Strong

The NM_000153.4(GALC):​c.1884dupA​(p.Trp629fs) variant causes a frameshift change involving the alteration of a non-conserved nucleotide. The variant was absent in control chromosomes in GnomAD project. Variant has been reported in ClinVar as Likely pathogenic (★★).

• Frequency:
  • Genomes: not found (cov: 32)
  • Exomes 𝑓: 0.0 (0 hom.)
  • Failed GnomAD Quality Control
• Consequence: GALC NM_000153.4 frameshift
• Clinical Significance: Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts P:2
• Conservation: PhyloP100: -0.594

Genes affected

GALC (HGNC:4115): (galactosylceramidase) This gene encodes a lysosomal protein which hydrolyzes the galactose ester bonds of galactosylceramide, galactosylsphingosine, lactosylceramide, and monogalactosyldiglyceride. Mutations in this gene have been associated with Krabbe disease, also known as globoid cell leukodystrophy. Alternate transcriptional splice variants, encoding different isoforms, have been characterized. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

GALC (HGNC:):

ACMG classification

Verdict is Pathogenic. Variant got 14 ACMG points.

• PVS1: Loss of function variant, product does not undergo nonsense mediated mRNA decay. Variant is located in the 3'-most 50 bp of the penultimate exon, not predicted to undergo nonsense mediated mRNA decay. There are 4 pathogenic variants in the truncated region.
• PM2: Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage
• PP5: Variant 14-87939931-A-AT is Pathogenic according to our data. Variant chr14-87939931-A-AT is described in ClinVar as [Likely_pathogenic]. Clinvar id is 557679.Status of the report is criteria_provided_multiple_submitters_no_conflicts, 2 stars.

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	#exon/exons	MANE	Protein	UniProt
GALC	NM_000153.4	c.1884dupA	p.Trp629fs	frameshift_variant	16/17	ENST00000261304.7	NP_000144.2

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	#exon/exons	TSL	MANE	Protein	Appris	UniProt
GALC	ENST00000261304.7	c.1884dupA	p.Trp629fs	frameshift_variant	16/17	1	NM_000153.4	ENSP00000261304.2

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes Cov.: 32

GnomAD4 exome Data not reliable, filtered out with message: AC0 AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 1458668 Hom.: 0 Cov.: 30 AF XY: 0.00 AC XY: 0 AN XY: 725840

Gnomad4 AFR exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 AMR exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 ASJ exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 EAS exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 SAS exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 FIN exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 NFE exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 OTH exome AF: 0.00

GnomAD4 genome Cov.: 32

ClinVar

Significance: Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic

Submissions summary: Pathogenic:2

Revision: criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts

Submissions by phenotype

Galactosylceramide beta-galactosidase deficiency Pathogenic:2

Likely pathogenic, criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	Counsyl	Apr 12, 2018	- -
Pathogenic, criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Labcorp	Feb 18, 2021	Experimental studies have shown that this variant affects GALC protein function (PMID: 27638593). For these reasons, this variant has been classified as Pathogenic. This variant disrupts the C-terminus of the GALC protein. Other variant(s) that disrupt this region (p.Trp629Cysfs*6) have been determined to be pathogenic (PMID: 11151421, Invitae). This suggests that variants that disrupt this region of the protein are likely to be causative of disease. This variant has been observed in individual(s) with Krabbe disease (PMID: 29120458). This variant is also known as 1837insA. ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 557679). This variant is not present in population databases (ExAC no frequency). This sequence change creates a premature translational stop signal (p.Trp629Metfs*9) in the GALC gene. While this is not anticipated to result in nonsense mediated decay, it is expected to disrupt the last 57 amino acid(s) of the GALC protein. -

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

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

LitVar

Other links and lift over

dbSNP: rs1336726861; hg19: chr14-88406275;