rs1554041313

chr5-1282547-C-T

Variant summary

Our verdict is Uncertain significance. Variant got 2 ACMG points: 2P and 0B. PM2

The NM_198253.3(TERT):c.1651G>A(p.Val551Met) variant causes a missense change involving the alteration of a non-conserved nucleotide. The variant was absent in control chromosomes in GnomAD project. 13/21 in silico tools predict a benign 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. V551A) has been classified as Uncertain significance.

• Frequency: Genomes: not found (cov: 32)
• Consequence: TERT NM_198253.3 missense
• Clinical Significance: Uncertain significance criteria provided, single submitter U:1
• Conservation: PhyloP100: 0.0390

Genes affected

TERT (HGNC:11730): (telomerase reverse transcriptase) Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein polymerase that maintains telomere ends by addition of the telomere repeat TTAGGG. The enzyme consists of a protein component with reverse transcriptase activity, encoded by this gene, and an RNA component which serves as a template for the telomere repeat. Telomerase expression plays a role in cellular senescence, as it is normally repressed in postnatal somatic cells resulting in progressive shortening of telomeres. Deregulation of telomerase expression in somatic cells may be involved in oncogenesis. Studies in mouse suggest that telomerase also participates in chromosomal repair, since de novo synthesis of telomere repeats may occur at double-stranded breaks. Alternatively spliced variants encoding different isoforms of telomerase reverse transcriptase have been identified; the full-length sequence of some variants has not been determined. Alternative splicing at this locus is thought to be one mechanism of regulation of telomerase activity. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

ACMG classification

Verdict is Uncertain_significance. Variant got 2 ACMG points.

• PM2: Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	#exon/exons	MANE	UniProt
TERT	NM_198253.3	c.1651G>A	p.Val551Met	missense_variant	3/16	ENST00000310581.10
TERT	NM_001193376.3	c.1651G>A	p.Val551Met	missense_variant	3/15
TERT	NR_149162.3	n.1730G>A		non_coding_transcript_exon_variant	3/13
TERT	NR_149163.3	n.1730G>A		non_coding_transcript_exon_variant	3/13

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	#exon/exons	TSL	MANE	Appris	UniProt
TERT	ENST00000310581.10	c.1651G>A	p.Val551Met	missense_variant	3/16	1	NM_198253.3	P2

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes Cov.: 32

GnomAD4 exome Cov.: 32

GnomAD4 genome Cov.: 32

ClinVar

Significance: Uncertain significance

Submissions summary: Uncertain:1

Revision: criteria provided, single submitter

Submissions by phenotype

Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis;C3151443:Dyskeratosis congenita, autosomal dominant 2 Uncertain:1

Uncertain significance, criteria provided, single submitter

clinical testing

Invitae

Oct 02, 2019

In summary, this variant is a novel missense change with uncertain impact on protein function. It has been classified as a Variant of Uncertain Significance. 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: "Tolerated"; PolyPhen-2: "Possibly Damaging"; Align-GVGD: "Class C0"). This variant is not present in population databases (ExAC no frequency) and has not been reported in the literature in individuals with a TERT-related disease. This sequence change replaces valine with methionine at codon 551 of the TERT protein (p.Val551Met). The valine residue is weakly conserved and there is a small physicochemical difference between valine and methionine. -

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
AlphaMissense	Benign	0.13
BayesDel_addAF	Benign	-0.12	T
BayesDel_noAF	Benign	-0.41
Cadd	Benign	16
Dann	Uncertain	0.98
DEOGEN2	Benign	0.40	T;.
Eigen	Benign	-0.54
Eigen_PC	Benign	-0.67
FATHMM_MKL	Benign	0.0058	N
LIST_S2	Uncertain	0.92	D;D
M_CAP	Uncertain	0.24	D
MetaRNN	Uncertain	0.48	T;T
MetaSVM	Benign	-0.60	T
MutationAssessor	Benign	0.69	N;N
MutationTaster	Benign	1.0	N;N;N;N
PrimateAI	Benign	0.27	T
PROVEAN	Benign	-0.40	N;N
REVEL	Benign	0.26
Sift	Benign	0.054	T;T
Sift4G	Uncertain	0.022	D;D
Polyphen		0.95	P;P
Vest4		0.097
MutPred		0.53		Loss of stability (P = 0.0518);Loss of stability (P = 0.0518);
MVP		0.56
MPC		2.0
ClinPred		0.44	T
GERP RS		-0.70
Varity_R		0.095
gMVP		0.37

Splicing

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
SpliceAI score (max)		0.030		Details are displayed if max score is > 0.2

Find out detailed SpliceAI scores and Pangolin per-transcript scores at spliceailookup.broadinstitute.org

Publications

LitVar

Other links and lift over

dbSNP: rs1554041313; hg19: chr5-1282662;