Our verdict is Benign. Variant got -12 ACMG points: 0P and 12B. BP4_StrongBA1
The NM_001400738.1(SNRPN):c.-622A>G variant causes a splice region change involving the alteration of a non-conserved nucleotide. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.2 in 152,206 control chromosomes in the GnomAD database, including 3,384 homozygotes. In-silico tool predicts a benign outcome for this variant. 1/1 splice prediction tools predict no significant impact on normal splicing. No clinical diagnostic laboratories have submitted clinical-significance assessments for this variant to ClinVar.
SNRPN (HGNC:11164): (small nuclear ribonucleoprotein polypeptide N) This gene is located within the Prader-Willi Syndrome critical region on chromosome 15 and is imprinted and expressed from the paternal allele. It encodes a component of the small nuclear ribonucleoprotein complex, which functions in pre-mRNA processing and may contribute to tissue-specific alternative splicing. Alternative promoter use and alternative splicing result in a multitude of transcript variants encoding the same protein. Transcript variants that initiate at the CpG island-associated imprinting center may be bicistronic and also encode the SNRPN upstream reading frame protein (SNURF) from an upstream open reading frame. In addition, long spliced transcripts for small nucleolar RNA host gene 14 (SNHG14) may originate from the promoters at this locus and share exons with this gene. Alterations in this region are associated with parental imprint switch failure, which may cause Angelman syndrome or Prader-Willi syndrome. [provided by RefSeq, Mar 2017]