Genetic Variant DEFA4:c.-158C>A (chr8-6938371-G-T) – ACMG Classification: Likely_benign (-2 pts)

Variant summary

Our verdict is Likely benign. The variant received -2 ACMG points: 2P and 4B. PM2BP4_Strong

The NM_001925.3(DEFA4):c.-158C>A variant causes a upstream gene change involving the alteration of a non-conserved nucleotide. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.0000263 in 151,934 control chromosomes in the GnomAD database, with no homozygous occurrence. In-silico tool predicts a benign outcome for this variant. No clinical diagnostic laboratories have submitted clinical-significance assessments for this variant to ClinVar.

Frequency

Genomes: 𝑓 0.000026 ( 0 hom., cov: 32)

Exomes 𝑓: 0.0 ( 0 hom. )

Failed GnomAD Quality Control

Consequence

DEFA4
NM_001925.3 upstream_gene

Scores

Clinical Significance

Not reported in ClinVar

Conservation

PhyloP100: 0.761

Publications

1 publications found

Variant links:

Genes affected

DEFA4 (HGNC:2763): (defensin alpha 4) Defensins are a family of antimicrobial and cytotoxic peptides thought to be involved in host defense. They are abundant in the granules of neutrophils and also found in the epithelia of mucosal surfaces such as those of the intestine, respiratory tract, urinary tract, and vagina. Members of the defensin family are highly similar in protein sequence and distinguished by a conserved cysteine motif. Several alpha defensin genes are clustered on chromosome 8. This gene differs from other genes of this family by an extra 83-base segment that is apparently the result of a recent duplication within the coding region. The protein encoded by this gene, defensin, alpha 4, is found in the neutrophils; it exhibits corticostatic activity and inhibits corticotropin stimulated corticosterone production. [provided by RefSeq, Oct 2014]

DEFA4 links:

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ACMG classification

Classification was made for transcript

Our verdict: Likely_benign. The variant received -2 ACMG points.

PM2

Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage;

BP4

Computational evidence support a benign effect (BayesDel_noAF=-0.93).

Variant Effect in Transcripts

ACMG analysis was done for transcript: NM_001925.3. You can select a different transcript below to see updated ACMG assignments.

RefSeq Transcripts

Sel.	Gene	Transcript	Tags	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon Rank	Protein	UniProt
	DEFA4	NM_001925.3	MANE Select	c.-158C>A		upstream_gene	N/A	NP_001916.1	P12838

Ensembl Transcripts

Sel.	Gene	Transcript	Tags	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon Rank	Protein	UniProt
	DEFA4	ENST00000297435.3	TSL:1 MANE Select	c.-158C>A		upstream_gene	N/A	ENSP00000297435.2	P12838

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes

AF:

0.0000263

AC:

AN:

151934

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Cov.:

show subpopulations

Gnomad AFR

AF:

0.0000966

Gnomad AMI

AF:

0.00

Gnomad AMR

AF:

0.00

Gnomad ASJ

AF:

0.00

Gnomad EAS

AF:

0.00

Gnomad SAS

AF:

0.00

Gnomad FIN

AF:

0.00

Gnomad MID

AF:

0.00

Gnomad NFE

AF:

0.00

Gnomad OTH

AF:

0.00

GnomAD4 exome

Data not reliable, filtered out with message: AC0

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European-Non Finnish (NFE)

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0.00

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Other (OTH)

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0.00

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GnomAD4 genome

AF:

0.0000263

AC:

AN:

151934

Hom.:

Cov.:

AF XY:

0.0000135

AC XY:

AN XY:

74176

show subpopulations

African (AFR)

AF:

0.0000966

AC:

AN:

41388

American (AMR)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

15244

Ashkenazi Jewish (ASJ)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

3468

East Asian (EAS)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

5178

South Asian (SAS)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

4794

European-Finnish (FIN)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

10566

Middle Eastern (MID)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

316

European-Non Finnish (NFE)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

67982

Other (OTH)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

2088

Allele Balance Distribution

Red line indicates average allele balance

Average allele balance: 0.550

Heterozygous variant carriers

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0.95

Allele balance

Age Distribution

Genome Het

Variant carriers

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Alfa

AF:

0.00

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ClinVar

Not reported in ClinVar

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.9

Name

Calibrated prediction

Score

Prediction

BayesDel_noAF

Benign

-0.93

CADD

Benign

1.5

(source)

DANN

Benign

0.45

PhyloP100

0.76

PromoterAI

0.010

Neutral

(source)

Splicing

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

Variant Effect in Transcripts

RefSeq Transcripts

Ensembl Transcripts

Frequencies

Age Distribution

ClinVar

Computational scores

Splicing

Publications

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