rs121908511

Positions:

• chr2-32141905-C-A
• chr2-32141905-C-T

Variant summary

Our verdict is Pathogenic. Variant got 10 ACMG points: 10P and 0B. PM1 PM2 PM5 PP3_Strong

The NM_014946.4(SPAST):​c.1495C>A​(p.Arg499Ser) variant causes a missense, splice region change involving the alteration of a non-conserved nucleotide. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.000000687 in 1,456,100 control chromosomes in the GnomAD database, with no homozygous occurrence. In-silico tool predicts a pathogenic outcome for this variant. 3/3 splice prediction tools predict no significant impact on normal splicing. Variant has been reported in ClinVar as Uncertain significance (★). Another variant affecting the same amino acid position, but resulting in a different missense (i.e. R499?) has been classified as Pathogenic.

• Frequency:
  • Genomes: not found (cov: 32)
  • Exomes 𝑓: 6.9e-7 (0 hom.)
• Consequence: SPAST NM_014946.4 missense, splice_region
• Scores: Splicing: ADA: 0.9565
• Clinical Significance: Uncertain significance criteria provided, single submitter U:1
• Conservation: PhyloP100: 2.52

Genes affected

SPAST (HGNC:11233): (spastin) This gene encodes a member of the AAA (ATPases associated with a variety of cellular activities) protein family. Members of this protein family share an ATPase domain and have roles in diverse cellular processes including membrane trafficking, intracellular motility, organelle biogenesis, protein folding, and proteolysis. The use of alternative translational initiation sites in this gene results in a single transcript variant that can produce isoforms that differ in the length of their N-terminus and which thereby differ in the efficiency of their export from the nucleus to the cytoplasm. In addition, alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants that encode isoforms that differ in other protein regions as well. One isoform of this gene has been shown to be a microtubule-severing enzyme that regulates microtubule abundance, mobility, and plus-end distribution. Mutations in this gene cause the most frequent form of autosomal dominant spastic paraplegia 4. [provided by RefSeq, May 2018]

SPAST (HGNC:):

ACMG classification

Verdict is Pathogenic. Variant got 10 ACMG points.

• PM1: In a helix (size 2) in uniprot entity SPAST_HUMAN there are 7 pathogenic changes around while only 0 benign (100%) in NM_014946.4
• PM2: Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage
• PM5: Other missense variant is known to change same aminoacid residue: Variant chr2-32141904-GCG-GT is described in Lovd as [Pathogenic].
• PP3: MetaRNN computational evidence supports a deleterious effect, 0.986

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	#exon/exons	MANE	Protein	UniProt
SPAST	NM_014946.4	c.1495C>A	p.Arg499Ser	missense_variant, splice_region_variant	13/17	ENST00000315285.9	NP_055761.2

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	#exon/exons	TSL	MANE	Protein	Appris	UniProt
SPAST	ENST00000315285.9	c.1495C>A	p.Arg499Ser	missense_variant, splice_region_variant	13/17	1	NM_014946.4	ENSP00000320885.3

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes Cov.: 32

GnomAD4 exome AF: 6.87e-7 AC: 1 AN: 1456100 Hom.: 0 Cov.: 30 AF XY: 0.00 AC XY: 0 AN XY: 724370

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: 9.02e-7

Gnomad4 OTH exome AF: 0.00

GnomAD4 genome Cov.: 32

ClinVar

Significance: Uncertain significance

Submissions summary: Uncertain:1

Revision: criteria provided, single submitter

Submissions by phenotype

Hereditary spastic paraplegia 4 Uncertain:1

Uncertain significance, criteria provided, single submitter

clinical testing

Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Labcorp

Oct 21, 2019

This sequence change replaces arginine with serine at codon 499 of the SPAST protein (p.Arg499Ser). The arginine residue is highly conserved and there is a moderate physicochemical difference between arginine and serine. This variant is not present in population databases (ExAC no frequency). This variant has not been reported in the literature in individuals with SPAST-related conditions. Algorithms developed to predict the effect of missense changes on protein structure and function (SIFT, PolyPhen-2, Align-GVGD) all suggest that this variant is likely to be disruptive, but these predictions have not been confirmed by published functional studies and their clinical significance is uncertain. This variant disrupts the p.Arg499 amino acid residue in SPAST. Other variant(s) that disrupt this residue have been determined to be pathogenic (PMID: 16009769, 18701882, 20562464, 16682546, 16055926, 25045380, 10610178). This suggests that this residue is clinically significant, and that variants that disrupt this residue are likely to be disease-causing. In summary, the available evidence is currently insufficient to determine the role of this variant in disease. Therefore, it has been classified as a Variant of Uncertain Significance. -

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
AlphaMissense	Pathogenic	1.0
BayesDel_addAF	Pathogenic	0.55	D
BayesDel_noAF	Pathogenic	0.56
CADD	Pathogenic	33
DANN	Uncertain	1.0
DEOGEN2	Pathogenic	0.97	D;D;.;.;.;.;.;.
Eigen	Pathogenic	0.75
Eigen_PC	Pathogenic	0.67
FATHMM_MKL	Uncertain	0.86	D
LIST_S2	Pathogenic	0.98	.;D;D;.;D;D;D;D
M_CAP	Pathogenic	0.50	D
MetaRNN	Pathogenic	0.99	D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D
MetaSVM	Pathogenic	1.1	D
MutationAssessor	Pathogenic	4.0	H;H;.;.;.;.;.;.
PrimateAI	Pathogenic	0.80	T
PROVEAN	Pathogenic	-6.0	D;.;D;.;.;.;.;.
REVEL	Pathogenic	0.95
Sift	Pathogenic	0.0	D;.;D;.;.;.;.;.
Sift4G	Pathogenic	0.0	D;D;D;.;.;.;.;.
Polyphen		1.0	D;D;.;.;.;.;.;.
Vest4		0.97
MutPred		0.95		Loss of MoRF binding (P = 0.0303);Loss of MoRF binding (P = 0.0303);.;.;.;.;.;.;
MVP		0.99
MPC		2.3
ClinPred		1.0	D
GERP RS		5.0
Varity_R		0.99
gMVP		1.0

Splicing

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
dbscSNV1_ADA	Benign	0.96
dbscSNV1_RF	Benign	0.69
SpliceAI score (max)		0.010		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: rs121908511; hg19: chr2-32366974;