rs141593516

Variant names:

Variant summary

Our verdict is Likely benign. The variant received -3 ACMG points: 0P and 3B. BP4_ModerateBP6

The NM_174936.4(PCSK9):c.493C>T(p.Arg165Trp) variant causes a missense change involving the alteration of a non-conserved nucleotide. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.0000297 in 1,613,948 control chromosomes in the GnomAD database, with no homozygous occurrence. In-silico tool predicts a benign outcome for this variant. 17/22 in silico tools predict a benign outcome for this variant. Variant has been reported in ClinVar as Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity (no stars). Another variant affecting the same amino acid position, but resulting in a different missense (i.e. R165L) has been classified as Uncertain significance.

Frequency

Genomes: 𝑓 0.000072 ( 0 hom., cov: 31)

Exomes 𝑓: 0.000025 ( 0 hom. )

Consequence

PCSK9
NM_174936.4 missense

Scores

Clinical Significance

Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity criteria provided, conflicting classifications U:4B:2

Conservation

PhyloP100: 0.172

Publications

2 publications found

Variant links:

Genes affected

PCSK9 (HGNC:20001): (proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9) This gene encodes a member of the subtilisin-like proprotein convertase family, which includes proteases that process protein and peptide precursors trafficking through regulated or constitutive branches of the secretory pathway. The encoded protein undergoes an autocatalytic processing event with its prosegment in the ER and is constitutively secreted as an inactive protease into the extracellular matrix and trans-Golgi network. It is expressed in liver, intestine and kidney tissues and escorts specific receptors for lysosomal degradation. It plays a role in cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism. Mutations in this gene have been associated with autosomal dominant familial hypercholesterolemia. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Feb 2014]

PCSK9 Gene-Disease associations (from GenCC):

hypercholesterolemia, autosomal dominant, 3
Inheritance: AD Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG Submitted by: ClinGen, Genomics England PanelApp, Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Ambry Genetics
homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia
Inheritance: AR Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet

PCSK9 links:

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ACMG classification

Classification was made for transcript

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

BP4

Computational evidence support a benign effect (MetaRNN=0.084151864).

BP6

Variant 1-55046616-C-T is Benign according to our data. Variant chr1-55046616-C-T is described in ClinVar as Conflicting_classifications_of_pathogenicity. ClinVar VariationId is 548110.

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	MANE	Protein	UniProt
PCSK9	NM_174936.4 link	c.493C>T	p.Arg165Trp	missense_variant	Exon 3 of 12	ENST00000302118.5	NP_777596.2	Q8NBP7-1

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	TSL	MANE	Protein	Appris	UniProt
PCSK9	ENST00000302118.5 link	c.493C>T	p.Arg165Trp	missense_variant	Exon 3 of 12	1	NM_174936.4	ENSP00000303208.5		Q8NBP7-1

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes

AF:

0.0000723

AC:

AN:

152120

Hom.:

Cov.:

show subpopulations

Gnomad AFR

AF:

0.000145

Gnomad AMI

AF:

0.00

Gnomad AMR

AF:

0.000196

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:

0.0000147

Gnomad OTH

AF:

0.000479

GnomAD2 exomes

AF:

0.0000637

AC:

AN:

251328

AF XY:

0.0000515

show subpopulations

Gnomad AFR exome

AF:

0.000246

Gnomad AMR exome

AF:

0.00

Gnomad ASJ exome

AF:

0.00

Gnomad EAS exome

AF:

0.0000544

Gnomad FIN exome

AF:

0.00

Gnomad NFE exome

AF:

0.0000968

Gnomad OTH exome

AF:

0.00

GnomAD4 exome

AF:

0.0000253

AC:

AN:

1461828

Hom.:

Cov.:

AF XY:

0.0000261

AC XY:

AN XY:

727210

show subpopulations

African (AFR)

AF:

0.000179

AC:

AN:

33478

American (AMR)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

44724

Ashkenazi Jewish (ASJ)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

26136

East Asian (EAS)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

39700

South Asian (SAS)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

86258

European-Finnish (FIN)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

53376

Middle Eastern (MID)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

5768

European-Non Finnish (NFE)

AF:

0.0000234

AC:

AN:

1111994

Other (OTH)

AF:

0.0000828

AC:

AN:

60394

Allele Balance Distribution

Red line indicates average allele balance

Average allele balance: 0.479

Heterozygous variant carriers

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0.40

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0.95

Allele balance

Age Distribution

Exome Het

Variant carriers

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Age

GnomAD4 genome

AF:

0.0000723

AC:

AN:

152120

Hom.:

Cov.:

AF XY:

0.0000538

AC XY:

AN XY:

74310

show subpopulations

African (AFR)

AF:

0.000145

AC:

AN:

41424

American (AMR)

AF:

0.000196

AC:

AN:

15272

Ashkenazi Jewish (ASJ)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

3470

East Asian (EAS)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

5172

South Asian (SAS)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

4818

European-Finnish (FIN)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

10622

Middle Eastern (MID)

AF:

0.00

AC:

AN:

316

European-Non Finnish (NFE)

AF:

0.0000147

AC:

AN:

68026

Other (OTH)

AF:

0.000479

AC:

AN:

2088

Allele Balance Distribution

Red line indicates average allele balance

Average allele balance: 0.525

Heterozygous variant carriers

0.00

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0.40

0.60

0.80

0.95

Allele balance

Age Distribution

Genome Het

Variant carriers

<30

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35-40

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>80

Age

Alfa

AF:

0.000104

Hom.:

Bravo

AF:

0.000113

ESP6500AA

AF:

0.00

AC:

ESP6500EA

AF:

0.000116

AC:

ExAC

AF:

0.0000659

AC:

EpiCase

AF:

0.0000545

EpiControl

AF:

0.0000593

ClinVar

Significance: Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity

Submissions summary: Uncertain:4Benign:2

Revision: criteria provided, conflicting classifications

LINK: link

Submissions by phenotype

Hypercholesterolemia, autosomal dominant, 3

Uncertain:2

Jul 29, 2024

All of Us Research Program, National Institutes of Health

Significance:Uncertain significance

Review Status:criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method:clinical testing

This missense variant replaces arginine with tryptophan at codon 165 of the PCSK9 protein. Computational prediction suggests that this variant may not impact protein structure and function (internally defined REVEL score threshold <= 0.5, PMID: 27666373). To our knowledge, functional studies have not been reported for this variant. This variant has not been reported in individuals affected with familial hypercholesterolemia in the literature. This variant has been identified in 16/251328 chromosomes in the general population by the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD). The available evidence is insufficient to determine the role of this variant in disease conclusively. Therefore, this variant is classified as a Variant of Uncertain Significance. -

Sep 02, 2021

Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Labcorp

Significance:Uncertain significance

Review Status:criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method:clinical testing

This sequence change replaces arginine with tryptophan at codon 165 of the PCSK9 protein (p.Arg165Trp). The arginine residue is weakly conserved and there is a moderate physicochemical difference between arginine and tryptophan. This variant is present in population databases (rs141593516, ExAC 0.02%). This variant has not been reported in the literature in individuals affected with PCSK9-related conditions. ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 548110). Algorithms developed to predict the effect of missense changes on protein structure and function output the following: SIFT: "Tolerated"; PolyPhen-2: "Benign"; Align-GVGD: "Class C0". The tryptophan amino acid residue is found in multiple mammalian species, which suggests that this missense change does not adversely affect protein function. 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. -

Hypercholesterolemia, familial, 1

Uncertain:1

Jan 02, 2018

Robarts Research Institute, Western University

Significance:Uncertain significance

Review Status:criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method:clinical testing

- -

Familial hypercholesterolemia

Uncertain:1

Mar 06, 2024

Color Diagnostics, LLC DBA Color Health

Significance:Uncertain significance

Review Status:criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method:clinical testing

This missense variant replaces arginine with tryptophan at codon 165 of the PCSK9 protein. Computational prediction suggests that this variant may not impact protein structure and function (internally defined REVEL score threshold <= 0.5, PMID: 27666373). To our knowledge, functional studies have not been reported for this variant. This variant has not been reported in individuals affected with PCSK9-related disorders in the literature. This variant has been identified in 16/251328 chromosomes in the general population by the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD). The available evidence is insufficient to determine the role of this variant in disease conclusively. Therefore, this variant is classified as a Variant of Uncertain Significance. -

not specified

Benign:1

Apr 14, 2025

Women's Health and Genetics/Laboratory Corporation of America, LabCorp

Significance:Likely benign

Review Status:criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method:clinical testing

- -

Cardiovascular phenotype

Benign:1

Apr 23, 2025

Ambry Genetics

Significance:Likely benign

Review Status:criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method:clinical testing

This alteration is classified as likely benign based on a combination of the following: seen in unaffected individuals, population frequency, intact protein function, lack of segregation with disease, co-occurrence, RNA analysis, in silico models, amino acid conservation, lack of disease association in case-control studies, and/or the mechanism of disease or impacted region is inconsistent with a known cause of pathogenicity. -

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name

Calibrated prediction

Score

Prediction

AlphaMissense

Benign

0.075

BayesDel_addAF

Benign

-0.36

BayesDel_noAF

Benign

-0.46

CADD

Benign

(source)

DANN

Benign

0.97

DEOGEN2

Benign

0.19

Eigen

Benign

-0.86

Eigen_PC

Benign

-0.90

FATHMM_MKL

Benign

0.027

LIST_S2

Benign

0.55

M_CAP

Benign

0.030

MetaRNN

Benign

0.084

MetaSVM

Benign

-0.83

MutationAssessor

Benign

-0.55

PhyloP100

0.17

PrimateAI

Benign

0.33

PROVEAN

Benign

-2.0

REVEL

Benign

0.11

Sift

Benign

0.079

Sift4G

Benign

0.080

Polyphen

0.024

Vest4

0.17

MVP

0.79

MPC

0.24

ClinPred

0.040

GERP RS

2.1

RBP_binding_hub_radar

0.0

RBP_regulation_power_radar

1.1

Varity_R

0.28

gMVP

0.51

Mutation Taster

=90/10

polymorphism

(source)

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

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Variant summary

Frequency

Consequence

Scores

Clinical Significance

Conservation

Publications

ACMG classification

Transcripts

RefSeq

Ensembl

Frequencies

Age Distribution

Age Distribution

ClinVar

Submissions by phenotype

Computational scores

Splicing

Publications

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