Our verdict is Pathogenic. Variant got 12 ACMG points: 12P and 0B. PVS1PM2PP5_Moderate
The NM_053025.4(MYLK):c.3652_3652+1delAG(p.Ser1218fs) variant causes a frameshift, splice donor, splice region, intron change involving the alteration of a non-conserved nucleotide. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.000000692 in 1,444,294 control chromosomes in the GnomAD database, with no homozygous occurrence. 1/1 splice prediction tools predicting alterations to normal splicing. Variant has been reported in ClinVar as Pathogenic (★). Variant results in nonsense mediated mRNA decay.
MYLK (HGNC:7590): (myosin light chain kinase) This gene, a muscle member of the immunoglobulin gene superfamily, encodes myosin light chain kinase which is a calcium/calmodulin dependent enzyme. This kinase phosphorylates myosin regulatory light chains to facilitate myosin interaction with actin filaments to produce contractile activity. This gene encodes both smooth muscle and nonmuscle isoforms. In addition, using a separate promoter in an intron in the 3' region, it encodes telokin, a small protein identical in sequence to the C-terminus of myosin light chain kinase, that is independently expressed in smooth muscle and functions to stabilize unphosphorylated myosin filaments. A pseudogene is located on the p arm of chromosome 3. Four transcript variants that produce four isoforms of the calcium/calmodulin dependent enzyme have been identified as well as two transcripts that produce two isoforms of telokin. Additional variants have been identified but lack full length transcripts. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
Verdict is Pathogenic. Variant got 12 ACMG points.
PVS1
Loss of function variant, product undergoes nonsense mediated mRNA decay. LoF is a known mechanism of disease.
PM2
Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage;
PP5
Variant 3-123682222-ACT-A is Pathogenic according to our data. Variant chr3-123682222-ACT-A is described in ClinVar as [Pathogenic]. Clinvar id is 471724.Status of the report is criteria_provided_single_submitter, 1 stars.
For these reasons, this variant has been classified as Pathogenic. Algorithms developed to predict the effect of sequence changes on RNA splicing suggest that this variant may disrupt the consensus splice site. This variant is also known as c.3652_3652+1del. This premature translational stop signal has been observed in individual(s) with aortic dissection (Invitae). This variant is not present in population databases (gnomAD no frequency). This sequence change creates a premature translational stop signal (Splice site) in the MYLK gene. This variant occurs within the aortic-specific isoform of MYLK. Loss-of-function variants in the aortic-specific isoform of MYLK are known to be pathogenic for thoracic aortic dissections (PMID: 21055718). -