rs111576740

Positions:

• chr5-1266537-T-C
• chr5-1266537-T-G

Variant summary

Our verdict is Uncertain significance. Variant got 4 ACMG points: 4P and 0B. PVS1_Moderate PM2

The NM_198253.3(TERT):​c.2583-2A>G variant causes a splice acceptor change. The variant was absent in control chromosomes in GnomAD project. In-silico tool predicts a pathogenic outcome for this variant. 3/3 splice prediction tools predicting alterations to normal splicing. No clinical diagnostic laboratories have submitted clinical-significance assessments for this variant to ClinVar.

• Frequency: Genomes: not found (cov: 33)
• Consequence: TERT NM_198253.3 splice_acceptor
• Scores: Splicing: ADA: 1.000
• Clinical Significance: Not reported in ClinVar
• Conservation: PhyloP100: 6.37

Genes affected

TERT (HGNC:11730): (telomerase reverse transcriptase) Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein polymerase that maintains telomere ends by addition of the telomere repeat TTAGGG. The enzyme consists of a protein component with reverse transcriptase activity, encoded by this gene, and an RNA component which serves as a template for the telomere repeat. Telomerase expression plays a role in cellular senescence, as it is normally repressed in postnatal somatic cells resulting in progressive shortening of telomeres. Deregulation of telomerase expression in somatic cells may be involved in oncogenesis. Studies in mouse suggest that telomerase also participates in chromosomal repair, since de novo synthesis of telomere repeats may occur at double-stranded breaks. Alternatively spliced variants encoding different isoforms of telomerase reverse transcriptase have been identified; the full-length sequence of some variants has not been determined. Alternative splicing at this locus is thought to be one mechanism of regulation of telomerase activity. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

ACMG classification

Verdict is Uncertain_significance. Variant got 4 ACMG points.

• PVS1: Splicing +-2 bp (donor or acceptor) variant, product NOT destroyed by NMD, known LOF gene, truncates exone, which is 0.020888496 fraction of the gene. No cryptic splice site detected. Exon removal is inframe change.
• PM2: Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	#exon/exons	MANE	Protein	UniProt
TERT	NM_198253.3	c.2583-2A>G		splice_acceptor_variant		ENST00000310581.10	NP_937983.2
TERT	NM_001193376.3	c.2583-2A>G		splice_acceptor_variant			NP_001180305.1
TERT	NR_149162.3	n.2480-2A>G		splice_acceptor_variant, non_coding_transcript_variant
TERT	NR_149163.3	n.2444-2A>G		splice_acceptor_variant, non_coding_transcript_variant

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	#exon/exons	TSL	MANE	Protein	Appris	UniProt
TERT	ENST00000310581.10	c.2583-2A>G		splice_acceptor_variant		1	NM_198253.3	ENSP00000309572	P2

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes Cov.: 33

GnomAD4 exome Cov.: 31

GnomAD4 genome Cov.: 33

ClinVar

Not reported in ClinVar

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
BayesDel_addAF	Pathogenic	0.63	D
BayesDel_noAF	Benign	-0.14
CADD	Uncertain	25
DANN	Benign	0.97
Eigen	Pathogenic	0.74
Eigen_PC	Uncertain	0.48
FATHMM_MKL	Pathogenic	0.97	D
MutationTaster	Benign	1.0	D;D;D;D
GERP RS		3.9

Splicing

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
dbscSNV1_ADA	Pathogenic	1.0
dbscSNV1_RF	Pathogenic	0.76
SpliceAI score (max)		0.98		Details are displayed if max score is > 0.2
DS_AL_spliceai		0.98		Position offset: -2

Find out detailed SpliceAI scores and Pangolin per-transcript scores at spliceailookup.broadinstitute.org

Publications

LitVar

Other links and lift over

dbSNP: rs111576740; hg19: chr5-1266652;