Our verdict is Likely benign. Variant got -4 ACMG points: 0P and 4B. BS2
The NM_004993.6(ATXN3):βc.882_884delβ(p.Lys295del) variant causes a inframe deletion change involving the alteration of a non-conserved nucleotide. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.00064 in 1,601,186 control chromosomes in the GnomAD database, with no homozygous occurrence. Variant has been reported in ClinVar as Uncertain significance (β ). Synonymous variant affecting the same amino acid position (i.e. Q294Q) has been classified as Benign.
ATXN3 (HGNC:7106): (ataxin 3) Machado-Joseph disease, also known as spinocerebellar ataxia-3, is an autosomal dominant neurologic disorder. The protein encoded by this gene contains (CAG)n repeats in the coding region, and the expansion of these repeats from the normal 12-44 to 52-86 is one cause of Machado-Joseph disease. There is a negative correlation between the age of onset and CAG repeat numbers. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been described for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2016]