rs121912545

Variant summary

Our verdict is Pathogenic. The variant received 16 ACMG points: 16P and 0B. PS3PP3_StrongPP5_Very_Strong

The NM_182894.3(VSX2):​c.679C>T​(p.Arg227Trp) variant causes a missense change involving the alteration of a non-conserved nucleotide. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.00000496 in 1,613,808 control chromosomes in the GnomAD database, with no homozygous occurrence. In-silico tool predicts a pathogenic outcome for this variant. Variant has been reported in ClinVar as Likely pathogenic (★★). ClinVar reports functional evidence for this variant: "SCV002247338: Experimental studies have shown that this missense change affects VSX2 function (PMID:23028343).".

Frequency

Genomes: 𝑓 0.000020 ( 0 hom., cov: 32)
Exomes 𝑓: 0.0000034 ( 0 hom. )

Consequence

VSX2
NM_182894.3 missense

Scores

13
5

Clinical Significance

Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts P:7

Conservation

PhyloP100: 2.58

Publications

9 publications found
Variant links:
Genes affected
VSX2 (HGNC:1975): (visual system homeobox 2) This gene encodes a homeobox protein originally described as a retina-specific transcription factor. Mutations in this gene are associated with microphthalmia, cataracts and iris abnormalities. [provided by RefSeq, Oct 2009]
VSX2 Gene-Disease associations (from GenCC):
  • isolated microphthalmia 2
    Inheritance: AR Classification: DEFINITIVE Submitted by: G2P
  • microphthalmia, isolated, with coloboma 3
    Inheritance: AR Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG Submitted by: Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), G2P
  • microphthalmia
    Inheritance: AR Classification: STRONG Submitted by: Ambry Genetics
  • isolated anophthalmia-microphthalmia syndrome
    Inheritance: AD Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet
  • microphthalmia, isolated, with coloboma
    Inheritance: AD Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet

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ACMG classification

Classification was made for transcript

Our verdict: Pathogenic. The variant received 16 ACMG points.

PS3
PS3 evidence extracted from ClinVar submissions: SCV002247338: Experimental studies have shown that this missense change affects VSX2 function (PMID: 23028343).
PP3
MetaRNN computational evidence supports a deleterious effect, 0.973
PP5
Variant 14-74259701-C-T is Pathogenic according to our data. Variant chr14-74259701-C-T is described in ClinVar as Pathogenic/Likely_pathogenic. ClinVar VariationId is 14862.Status of the report is criteria_provided_multiple_submitters_no_conflicts, 2 stars.

Variant Effect in Transcripts

ACMG analysis was done for transcript: NM_182894.3. You can select a different transcript below to see updated ACMG assignments.

RefSeq Transcripts

Sel.
GeneTranscriptTagsHGVScHGVSpEffectExon RankProteinUniProt
VSX2
NM_182894.3
MANE Select
c.679C>Tp.Arg227Trp
missense
Exon 4 of 5NP_878314.1P58304

Ensembl Transcripts

Sel.
GeneTranscriptTagsHGVScHGVSpEffectExon RankProteinUniProt
VSX2
ENST00000261980.3
TSL:1 MANE Select
c.679C>Tp.Arg227Trp
missense
Exon 4 of 5ENSP00000261980.2P58304

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes
AF:
0.0000197
AC:
3
AN:
152172
Hom.:
0
Cov.:
32
show subpopulations
Gnomad AFR
AF:
0.0000241
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:
0.0000294
Gnomad OTH
AF:
0.00
GnomAD2 exomes
AF:
0.0000159
AC:
4
AN:
251100
AF XY:
0.0000221
show subpopulations
Gnomad AFR exome
AF:
0.0000615
Gnomad AMR exome
AF:
0.0000289
Gnomad ASJ exome
AF:
0.00
Gnomad EAS exome
AF:
0.00
Gnomad FIN exome
AF:
0.00
Gnomad NFE exome
AF:
0.0000176
Gnomad OTH exome
AF:
0.00
GnomAD4 exome
AF:
0.00000342
AC:
5
AN:
1461636
Hom.:
0
Cov.:
31
AF XY:
0.00000550
AC XY:
4
AN XY:
727094
show subpopulations
African (AFR)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
33478
American (AMR)
AF:
0.0000224
AC:
1
AN:
44716
Ashkenazi Jewish (ASJ)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
26112
East Asian (EAS)
AF:
0.0000252
AC:
1
AN:
39690
South Asian (SAS)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
86238
European-Finnish (FIN)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
53414
Middle Eastern (MID)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
5764
European-Non Finnish (NFE)
AF:
0.00000270
AC:
3
AN:
1111850
Other (OTH)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
60374
Allele Balance Distribution
Red line indicates average allele balance
Average allele balance: 0.495
Heterozygous variant carriers
0
1
1
2
2
3
0.00
0.20
0.40
0.60
0.80
0.95
Allele balance

Age Distribution

Exome Het
Variant carriers
0
2
4
6
8
10
<30
30-35
35-40
40-45
45-50
50-55
55-60
60-65
65-70
70-75
75-80
>80
Age
GnomAD4 genome
AF:
0.0000197
AC:
3
AN:
152172
Hom.:
0
Cov.:
32
AF XY:
0.0000135
AC XY:
1
AN XY:
74340
show subpopulations
African (AFR)
AF:
0.0000241
AC:
1
AN:
41432
American (AMR)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
15282
Ashkenazi Jewish (ASJ)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
3472
East Asian (EAS)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
5188
South Asian (SAS)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
4834
European-Finnish (FIN)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
10628
Middle Eastern (MID)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
316
European-Non Finnish (NFE)
AF:
0.0000294
AC:
2
AN:
68020
Other (OTH)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
2088
Allele Balance Distribution
Red line indicates average allele balance
Average allele balance: 0.492
Heterozygous variant carriers
0
1
1
2
2
3
0.00
0.20
0.40
0.60
0.80
0.95
Allele balance

Age Distribution

Genome Het
Variant carriers
0
2
4
6
8
10
<30
30-35
35-40
40-45
45-50
50-55
55-60
60-65
65-70
70-75
75-80
>80
Age
Alfa
AF:
0.000295
Hom.:
0
Bravo
AF:
0.0000113
ExAC
AF:
0.0000165
AC:
2

ClinVar

ClinVar submissions
Significance:Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic
Revision:criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
View on ClinVar
Pathogenic
VUS
Benign
Condition
3
-
-
Isolated microphthalmia 2 (3)
1
-
-
Anophthalmia;C0026010:Microphthalmia (1)
1
-
-
Isolated microphthalmia 2;C1864721:Microphthalmia, isolated, with coloboma 3 (1)
1
-
-
Microphthalmia, isolated, with coloboma 3 (1)
1
-
-
VSX2-related Microphthalmia (1)

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.9

Name
Calibrated prediction
Score
Prediction
AlphaMissense
Pathogenic
1.0
BayesDel_addAF
Pathogenic
0.31
D
BayesDel_noAF
Pathogenic
0.38
CADD
Pathogenic
32
DANN
Pathogenic
1.0
DEOGEN2
Pathogenic
0.88
D
Eigen
Uncertain
0.49
Eigen_PC
Uncertain
0.42
FATHMM_MKL
Uncertain
0.90
D
LIST_S2
Pathogenic
1.0
D
M_CAP
Uncertain
0.23
D
MetaRNN
Pathogenic
0.97
D
MetaSVM
Pathogenic
0.89
D
MutationAssessor
Uncertain
2.2
M
PhyloP100
2.6
PrimateAI
Pathogenic
0.94
D
PROVEAN
Pathogenic
-7.9
D
REVEL
Pathogenic
0.84
Sift
Pathogenic
0.0
D
Sift4G
Pathogenic
0.0
D
Polyphen
1.0
D
Vest4
0.98
MutPred
0.88
Loss of phosphorylation at S229 (P = 0.0621)
MVP
0.92
MPC
0.84
ClinPred
0.99
D
GERP RS
3.2
Varity_R
0.90
gMVP
0.87
Mutation Taster
=15/85
disease causing

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

Publications

Other links and lift over

dbSNP: rs121912545; hg19: chr14-74726404; API
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