rs141261442

Variant summary

Our verdict is Likely benign. The variant received -3 ACMG points: 1P and 4B. PP3BS2

The NM_001105206.3(LAMA4):​c.4645A>T​(p.Asn1549Tyr) variant causes a missense change. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.000303 in 1,613,780 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 Uncertain significance (★★). Another variant affecting the same amino acid position, but resulting in a different missense (i.e. N1549I) has been classified as Uncertain significance.

Frequency

Genomes: 𝑓 0.00020 ( 0 hom., cov: 33)
Exomes 𝑓: 0.00031 ( 0 hom. )

Consequence

LAMA4
NM_001105206.3 missense

Scores

5
10
3

Clinical Significance

Uncertain significance criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts U:8

Conservation

PhyloP100: 5.04

Publications

4 publications found
Variant links:
Genes affected
LAMA4 (HGNC:6484): (laminin subunit alpha 4) Laminins, a family of extracellular matrix glycoproteins, are the major noncollagenous constituent of basement membranes. They have been implicated in a wide variety of biological processes including cell adhesion, differentiation, migration, signaling, neurite outgrowth and metastasis. Laminins are composed of 3 non identical chains: laminin alpha, beta and gamma (formerly A, B1, and B2, respectively) and they form a cruciform structure consisting of 3 short arms, each formed by a different chain, and a long arm composed of all 3 chains. Each laminin chain is a multidomain protein encoded by a distinct gene. Several isoforms of each chain have been described. Different alpha, beta and gamma chain isomers combine to give rise to different heterotrimeric laminin isoforms which are designated by Arabic numerals in the order of their discovery, i.e. alpha1beta1gamma1 heterotrimer is laminin 1. The biological functions of the different chains and trimer molecules are largely unknown, but some of the chains have been shown to differ with respect to their tissue distribution, presumably reflecting diverse functions in vivo. This gene encodes the alpha chain isoform laminin, alpha 4. The domain structure of alpha 4 is similar to that of alpha 3, both of which resemble truncated versions of alpha 1 and alpha 2, in that approximately 1,200 residues at the N-terminus (domains IV, V and VI) have been lost. Laminin, alpha 4 contains the C-terminal G domain which distinguishes all alpha chains from the beta and gamma chains. The RNA analysis from adult and fetal tissues revealed developmental regulation of expression, however, the exact function of laminin, alpha 4 is not known. Tissue-specific utilization of alternative polyA-signal has been described in literature. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2011]
LAMA4 Gene-Disease associations (from GenCC):
  • dilated cardiomyopathy 1JJ
    Inheritance: AD Classification: STRONG, MODERATE, LIMITED Submitted by: Ambry Genetics, Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Illumina
  • familial isolated dilated cardiomyopathy
    Inheritance: AD Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet
  • dilated cardiomyopathy
    Inheritance: AD Classification: LIMITED Submitted by: ClinGen

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ACMG classification

Classification was made for transcript

Our verdict: Likely_benign. The variant received -3 ACMG points.

PP3
MetaRNN computational evidence supports a deleterious effect, 0.816
BS2
High AC in GnomAd4 at 31 AD gene.

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene Transcript HGVSc HGVSp Effect Exon rank MANE Protein UniProt
LAMA4NM_001105206.3 linkc.4645A>T p.Asn1549Tyr missense_variant Exon 33 of 39 ENST00000230538.12 NP_001098676.2 Q16363A0A0A0MQS9

Ensembl

Gene Transcript HGVSc HGVSp Effect Exon rank TSL MANE Protein Appris UniProt
LAMA4ENST00000230538.12 linkc.4645A>T p.Asn1549Tyr missense_variant Exon 33 of 39 1 NM_001105206.3 ENSP00000230538.7 A0A0A0MQS9

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes
AF:
0.000204
AC:
31
AN:
152216
Hom.:
0
Cov.:
33
show subpopulations
Gnomad AFR
AF:
0.000121
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:
0.000382
Gnomad OTH
AF:
0.00
GnomAD2 exomes
AF:
0.000187
AC:
47
AN:
250826
AF XY:
0.000184
show subpopulations
Gnomad AFR exome
AF:
0.000123
Gnomad AMR exome
AF:
0.0000580
Gnomad ASJ exome
AF:
0.00
Gnomad EAS exome
AF:
0.00
Gnomad FIN exome
AF:
0.00
Gnomad NFE exome
AF:
0.000361
Gnomad OTH exome
AF:
0.000327
GnomAD4 exome
AF:
0.000313
AC:
458
AN:
1461564
Hom.:
0
Cov.:
31
AF XY:
0.000296
AC XY:
215
AN XY:
727072
show subpopulations
African (AFR)
AF:
0.0000896
AC:
3
AN:
33472
American (AMR)
AF:
0.0000671
AC:
3
AN:
44704
Ashkenazi Jewish (ASJ)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
26132
East Asian (EAS)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
39682
South Asian (SAS)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
86226
European-Finnish (FIN)
AF:
0.0000188
AC:
1
AN:
53252
Middle Eastern (MID)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
5760
European-Non Finnish (NFE)
AF:
0.000398
AC:
442
AN:
1111946
Other (OTH)
AF:
0.000149
AC:
9
AN:
60390
Allele Balance Distribution
Red line indicates average allele balance
Average allele balance: 0.472
Heterozygous variant carriers
0
21
43
64
86
107
0.00
0.20
0.40
0.60
0.80
0.95
Allele balance

Age Distribution

Exome Het
Variant carriers
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30-35
35-40
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>80
Age
GnomAD4 genome
AF:
0.000204
AC:
31
AN:
152216
Hom.:
0
Cov.:
33
AF XY:
0.000202
AC XY:
15
AN XY:
74362
show subpopulations
African (AFR)
AF:
0.000121
AC:
5
AN:
41448
American (AMR)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
15282
Ashkenazi Jewish (ASJ)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
3470
East Asian (EAS)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
5204
South Asian (SAS)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
4830
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:
0.000382
AC:
26
AN:
68032
Other (OTH)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
2094
Allele Balance Distribution
Red line indicates average allele balance
Average allele balance: 0.480
Heterozygous variant carriers
0
2
4
7
9
11
0.00
0.20
0.40
0.60
0.80
0.95
Allele balance

Age Distribution

Genome Het
Variant carriers
0
2
4
6
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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:
0.000267
Hom.:
0
Bravo
AF:
0.000162
TwinsUK
AF:
0.000270
AC:
1
ALSPAC
AF:
0.00104
AC:
4
ESP6500AA
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
ESP6500EA
AF:
0.000465
AC:
4
ExAC
AF:
0.000107
AC:
13
EpiCase
AF:
0.000218
EpiControl
AF:
0.000415

ClinVar

Significance: Uncertain significance
Submissions summary: Uncertain:8
Revision: criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
LINK: link

Submissions by phenotype

Dilated cardiomyopathy 1JJ Uncertain:2
Sep 06, 2021
Fulgent Genetics, Fulgent Genetics
Significance:Uncertain significance
Review Status:criteria provided, single submitter
Collection Method:clinical testing

- -

Oct 24, 2024
Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Labcorp
Significance:Uncertain significance
Review Status:criteria provided, single submitter
Collection Method:clinical testing

This sequence change replaces asparagine, which is neutral and polar, with tyrosine, which is neutral and polar, at codon 1542 of the LAMA4 protein (p.Asn1542Tyr). This variant is present in population databases (rs141261442, gnomAD 0.04%), and has an allele count higher than expected for a pathogenic variant. This variant has not been reported in the literature in individuals affected with LAMA4-related conditions. ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 178051). Invitae Evidence Modeling of protein sequence and biophysical properties (such as structural, functional, and spatial information, amino acid conservation, physicochemical variation, residue mobility, and thermodynamic stability) indicates that this missense variant is expected to disrupt LAMA4 protein function with a positive predictive value of 80%. 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. -

not provided Uncertain:2
Sep 30, 2024
GeneDx
Significance:Uncertain significance
Review Status:criteria provided, single submitter
Collection Method:clinical testing

Identified in patients with cardiomyopathy in published literature, including one pediatric patient; several patients harbored additional cardiogenetic variants (PMID: 31568572, 30847666); In silico analysis supports that this missense variant has a deleterious effect on protein structure/function; Also known as p.(N1549Y); This variant is associated with the following publications: (PMID: 31333075, 30847666, 31568572) -

Jun 12, 2017
Stanford Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease, Stanford University
Significance:Uncertain significance
Review Status:no assertion criteria provided
Collection Method:provider interpretation

Given that the LAMA4 gene is weakly associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, that one report of this variant did not segregate with disease in a family, and the high prevalence of this variant in the general population, we consider this variant a variant of uncertain significance, likely benign and we do not feel it is suitable for assessing risk in healthy relatives ("predictive genetic testing"). The LAMA4 gene is weakly associated with cardiomyopathy; specifically, it is associated with dilated cardiomyopathy. Missense variation in the LAMA4 gene slightly increases the chance that a carrier will develop cardiomyopathy (Walsh et al 2016). This variant is present in ClinVar, where it is classified by two labs as a variant of uncertain significance. It has been seen at least two patients. Another variant at this codon, p.Asn1542Ser is classified as benign in ClinVar by 4 laboratories. This variant has not been reported in the literature; however, it was presented in a case example of a patient with dilated cardiomyopathy. The p.Asn1542Tyr variant was identified in a patient with dilated cardiomyopathy. However, this patient also had a pathogenic variant identified in MYBPC3. Furthermore, it did not segregate with disease in another family member (case presentation by Amy Sturm, https://ccme.osu.edu/WebCastsFiles/669Familial%20Heart%20Disease%20-%204.pdf) Per the test report, Algorithms developed to predict the effect of missense changes on protein structure and function do not agree on the potential impact of this missense change (SIFT: "Deleterious"; PolyPhen-2: "Probably Damaging"; Align-GVGD: "Class C0")." The asparagine at codon 1542 is completely conserved across species, as are neighboring amino acids. The variant was reported online in 55 of 138,307 individuals in the Genome Aggregation Consortium Dataset (gnomAD; http://gnomad.broadinstitute.org/), which currently includes variant calls on >140,000 unrelated individuals of African, Asian, European, Ashkenazi, Latino descent. Specifically, the variant was observed in 47 of 63,210 individuals of European descent (MAF=0.04%), 4 of 12,014 individuals of African descent, 2 of 17,187 individuals of Latino descent and 2 of 3,224 individuals of other descent. The phenotype of those individuals is not publicly available. The dataset is comprised of multiple cohorts, some of which were recruited from the general population, others were enriched for common cardiovascular disease. -

not specified Uncertain:1
Jul 03, 2013
Laboratory for Molecular Medicine, Mass General Brigham Personalized Medicine
Significance:Uncertain significance
Review Status:criteria provided, single submitter
Collection Method:clinical testing

The Asn1542Tyr variant in LAMA4 has not been reported in individuals with cardio myopathy, but has been identified in 4/8600 European American chromosomes by the NHLBI Exome Sequencing Project (http://evs.gs.washington.edu/EVS/; dbSNP rs1412 61442). Computational analyses (biochemical amino acid properties, conservation, AlignGVGD, PolyPhen2, and SIFT) do not provide strong support for or against an impact to the protein. Additional information is needed to fully assess the cli nical significance of this variant. -

Cardiomyopathy Uncertain:1
Jan 07, 2016
CHEO Genetics Diagnostic Laboratory, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
Significance:Uncertain significance
Review Status:criteria provided, single submitter
Collection Method:clinical testing

- -

Primary familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy Uncertain:1
Jul 03, 2019
Klaassen Lab, Charite University Medicine Berlin
Significance:Uncertain significance
Review Status:criteria provided, single submitter
Collection Method:research

- -

Cardiovascular phenotype Uncertain:1
Jul 27, 2023
Ambry Genetics
Significance:Uncertain significance
Review Status:criteria provided, single submitter
Collection Method:clinical testing

The p.N1542Y variant (also known as c.4624A>T), located in coding exon 32 of the LAMA4 gene, results from an A to T substitution at nucleotide position 4624. The asparagine at codon 1542 is replaced by tyrosine, an amino acid with dissimilar properties. This variant has been detected in individuals from a cohort with various types of cardiomyopathy; however, details were limited, and each individual also had additional variants in other cardiac-related genes (van Lint FHM et al. Neth Heart J. 2019 Jun;27(6):304-309). This amino acid position is well conserved in available vertebrate species. In addition, the in silico prediction for this alteration is inconclusive. Since supporting evidence is limited at this time, the clinical significance of this alteration remains unclear. -

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name
Calibrated prediction
Score
Prediction
AlphaMissense
Uncertain
0.43
BayesDel_addAF
Benign
-0.028
T
BayesDel_noAF
Uncertain
0.050
CADD
Uncertain
25
DANN
Uncertain
1.0
DEOGEN2
Benign
0.38
T;T;T;T
Eigen
Pathogenic
0.75
Eigen_PC
Pathogenic
0.73
FATHMM_MKL
Uncertain
0.97
D
LIST_S2
Uncertain
0.88
D;.;.;D
M_CAP
Uncertain
0.17
D
MetaRNN
Pathogenic
0.82
D;D;D;D
MetaSVM
Uncertain
0.41
D
PhyloP100
5.0
PrimateAI
Uncertain
0.60
T
PROVEAN
Pathogenic
-5.0
D;D;D;D
REVEL
Pathogenic
0.66
Sift
Uncertain
0.017
D;D;D;D
Sift4G
Uncertain
0.0020
D;D;D;D
Vest4
0.80
MVP
0.90
MPC
0.61
ClinPred
0.30
T
GERP RS
6.0
gMVP
0.59
Mutation Taster
=81/19
polymorphism

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: rs141261442; hg19: chr6-112441506; API