chr3-36996701-G-C

Variant names:

• chr3-36996701-G-C
• rs63750206
• NM_000249.4:c.199G>C

Variant summary

Our verdict is Pathogenic. The variant received 26 ACMG points: 26P and 0B. PS1_Very_Strong PM1 PM2 PM5 PP3_Strong PP5_Very_Strong

The NM_000249.4(MLH1):​c.199G>C​(p.Gly67Arg) variant causes a missense 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. 14/22 in silico tools predict a damaging outcome for this variant. Variant has been reported in ClinVar as Likely pathogenic (★★). Another nucleotide change resulting in the same amino acid substitution has been previously reported as Pathogenic in ClinVar. Another variant affecting the same amino acid position, but resulting in a different missense (i.e. G67V) has been classified as Likely pathogenic.

• Frequency: Genomes: not found (cov: 32)
• Consequence: MLH1 NM_000249.4 missense
• Clinical Significance: Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts P:5
• Conservation: PhyloP100: 9.51
• Publications: 81 publications found

Genes affected

MLH1 (HGNC:7127): (mutL homolog 1) The protein encoded by this gene can heterodimerize with mismatch repair endonuclease PMS2 to form MutL alpha, part of the DNA mismatch repair system. When MutL alpha is bound by MutS beta and some accessory proteins, the PMS2 subunit of MutL alpha introduces a single-strand break near DNA mismatches, providing an entry point for exonuclease degradation. The encoded protein is also involved in DNA damage signaling and can heterodimerize with DNA mismatch repair protein MLH3 to form MutL gamma, which is involved in meiosis. This gene was identified as a locus frequently mutated in hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer (HNPCC). [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2017]

MLH1 Gene-Disease associations (from GenCC):

• Lynch syndrome

  Inheritance: AD Classification: DEFINITIVE, SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: G2P, ClinGen, Orphanet
• Lynch syndrome 2

  Inheritance: AD Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG Submitted by: Ambry Genetics, Genomics England PanelApp
• Muir-Torre syndrome

  Inheritance: AD Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG, MODERATE, SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Genomics England PanelApp, Ambry Genetics, G2P, Orphanet
• mismatch repair cancer syndrome 1

  Inheritance: AR Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG, SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Ambry Genetics, G2P, Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Orphanet, ClinGen
• Lynch syndrome 1

  Inheritance: AD Classification: STRONG Submitted by: Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae)
• ovarian cancer

  Inheritance: AD Classification: STRONG Submitted by: Genomics England PanelApp
• malignant pancreatic neoplasm

  Inheritance: AD Classification: MODERATE Submitted by: Genomics England PanelApp
• rhabdomyosarcoma

  Inheritance: AR Classification: MODERATE Submitted by: Genomics England PanelApp
• prostate cancer

  Inheritance: AD Classification: LIMITED Submitted by: Ambry Genetics
• breast cancer

  Inheritance: AD Classification: NO_KNOWN Submitted by: Ambry Genetics
• hereditary breast carcinoma

  Inheritance: AD Classification: NO_KNOWN Submitted by: ClinGen

ACMG classification

Our verdict: Pathogenic. The variant received 26 ACMG points.

• PS1: Transcript NM_000249.4 (MLH1) is affected with MISSENSE_VARIANT having same AA change as one Pathogenic present in ClinVar.
• PM1: In a hotspot region, there are 15 aminoacids with missense pathogenic changes in the window of +-8 aminoacids around while only 1 benign, 40 uncertain in NM_000249.4
• PM2: Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage
• PM5: Other missense variant is known to change same aminoacid residue: Variant chr3-36996702-G-T is described in ClinVar as Conflicting_classifications_of_pathogenicity. ClinVar VariationId is 800484.
• PP3: MetaRNN computational evidence supports a deleterious effect, 0.995
• PP5: Variant 3-36996701-G-C is Pathogenic according to our data. Variant chr3-36996701-G-C is described in ClinVar as Pathogenic/Likely_pathogenic. ClinVar VariationId is 495763.Status of the report is criteria_provided_multiple_submitters_no_conflicts, 2 stars.

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	MANE	Protein	UniProt
MLH1	NM_000249.4	c.199G>C	p.Gly67Arg	missense_variant	Exon 2 of 19	ENST00000231790.8	NP_000240.1

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	TSL	MANE	Protein	Appris	UniProt
MLH1	ENST00000231790.8	c.199G>C	p.Gly67Arg	missense_variant	Exon 2 of 19	1	NM_000249.4	ENSP00000231790.3

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes Cov.: 32

GnomAD4 exome Cov.: 30

GnomAD4 genome Cov.: 32

ClinVar

Significance: Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic

Submissions summary: Pathogenic:5

Revision: criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts

Submissions by phenotype

Colorectal cancer, hereditary nonpolyposis, type 2 Pathogenic:2

Jul 18, 2023

Myriad Genetics, Inc.

Significance: Pathogenic

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This variant is considered pathogenic. Functional studies indicate this variant impacts protein function [PMID: 16083711, 16982745, 20020535, 22736432]. This variant is strongly associated with more severe personal and family histories of cancer, typical for individuals with pathogenic variants in this gene [PMID: 27363726]. This variant is expected to disrupt protein structure [Myriad internal data]. -

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Neuberg Centre For Genomic Medicine, NCGM

Significance: Pathogenic

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

The missense variant p.G67R in MLH1 (NM_000249.4) has been reported previously in an affected inidvidual (Raevaara TE et al). Functional studies have shown a damaging effect (Avdievich E et al). It has been submitted to ClinVar as Pathogenic.The p.G67R variant is novel (not in any individuals) in gnomAD Exomes and is novel (not in any individuals) in 1000 Genomes.The p.G67R missense variant is predicted to be damaging by both SIFT and PolyPhen2. The glycine residue at codon 67 of MLH1 is conserved in all mammalian species. The nucleotide c.199 in MLH1 is predicted conserved by GERP++ and PhyloP across 100 vertebrates. For these reasons, this variant has been classified as Pathogenic. -

Lynch syndrome Pathogenic:1

Oct 27, 2016

Women's Health and Genetics/Laboratory Corporation of America, LabCorp

Significance: Pathogenic

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

Variant summary: The MLH1 c.199G>C (p.Gly67Arg) variant involves the alteration of a conserved nucleotide. 4/4 in silico tools predict a damaging outcome for this variant (SNPs&GO not captured due to low reliability index). This variant is absent in 120848 control chromosomes but has been reported in multiple affected individuals in the literature. In addition, functional studies report the loss of MMR activity (Ellison_2001, Raevaara_2005). Taken together, this variant is classified as pathogenic. -

Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal neoplasms Pathogenic:1

Mar 08, 2022

Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Labcorp

Significance: Pathogenic

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This sequence change replaces glycine, which is neutral and non-polar, with arginine, which is basic and polar, at codon 67 of the MLH1 protein (p.Gly67Arg). This variant is not present in population databases (gnomAD no frequency). This missense change has been observed in individual(s) with colorectal cancer (PMID: 8521398, 12419761, 15563510, 15613555, 16083711, 17312306, 18383312, 21239990). ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 495763). Advanced modeling of protein sequence and biophysical properties (such as structural, functional, and spatial information, amino acid conservation, physicochemical variation, residue mobility, and thermodynamic stability) performed at Invitae indicates that this missense variant is expected to disrupt MLH1 protein function. Experimental studies have shown that this missense change affects MLH1 function (PMID: 9697702, 11555625, 12810663, 16083711, 18094436, 18337503). This variant disrupts the p.Gly67 amino acid residue in MLH1. Other variant(s) that disrupt this residue have been determined to be pathogenic (PMID: 8521398, 12419761, 15563510, 15613555, 17312306, 18383312, 21239990). This suggests that this residue is clinically significant, and that variants that disrupt this residue are likely to be disease-causing. For these reasons, this variant has been classified as Pathogenic. -

Hereditary cancer-predisposing syndrome Pathogenic:1

May 03, 2025

Ambry Genetics

Significance: Likely pathogenic

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

The p.G67R variant (also known as c.199G>C), located in coding exon 2 of the MLH1 gene, results from a G to C substitution at nucleotide position 199. The glycine at codon 67 is replaced by arginine, an amino acid with dissimilar properties. Other variant(s) resulting in the same amino acid change (c.199G>A) have been identified in individual(s) with features consistent with Lynch syndrome (Rosty C et al. BMJ Open. 2016 Feb;6:e010293; Rossi BM et al. BMC Cancer, 2017 Sep;17:623; Li F et al. Mol Genet Genomic Med, 2020 08;8:e1295; González-Acosta M et al. J Med Genet, 2020 04;57:269-273; Ambry internal data). This amino acid position is highly conserved in available vertebrate species. In addition, this alteration is predicted to be deleterious by in silico analysis. This variant is considered to be rare based on population cohorts in the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD). Based on the majority of available evidence to date, this variant is likely to be pathogenic. -

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
AlphaMissense	Pathogenic	1.0
BayesDel_addAF	Pathogenic	0.59	D
BayesDel_noAF	Pathogenic	0.62
CADD	Pathogenic	31
DANN	Pathogenic	1.0
DEOGEN2	Pathogenic	0.97	D
Eigen	Pathogenic	1.2
Eigen_PC	Pathogenic	1.1
FATHMM_MKL	Pathogenic	0.99	D
LIST_S2	Pathogenic	1.0	D
M_CAP	Pathogenic	0.60	D
MetaRNN	Pathogenic	1.0	D
MetaSVM	Pathogenic	0.90	D
MutationAssessor	Pathogenic	5.0	H
PhyloP100		9.5
PrimateAI	Pathogenic	0.82	D
PROVEAN	Pathogenic	-7.3	D
REVEL	Pathogenic	0.99
Sift	Pathogenic	0.0	D
Sift4G	Pathogenic	0.0	D
Polyphen		1.0	D
Vest4		0.98
MutPred		1.0		Gain of MoRF binding (P = 0.089);
MVP		0.99
MPC		0.44
ClinPred		1.0	D
GERP RS		5.8
RBP_binding_hub_radar		0.92
RBP_regulation_power_radar		2.6
Varity_R		0.98
gMVP		0.95
Mutation Taster		=156/144	disease causing (ClinVar)

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

Other links and lift over

dbSNP: rs63750206; hg19: chr3-37038192;