rs34062885

Variant summary

Our verdict is Uncertain significance. The variant received 3 ACMG points: 4P and 1B. PM1PM2BP4

The NM_198253.3(TERT):​c.2844C>G​(p.Ser948Arg) variant causes a missense, splice region change involving the alteration of a non-conserved nucleotide. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.00000657 in 152,232 control chromosomes in the GnomAD database, with no homozygous occurrence. In-silico tool predicts a benign outcome for this variant. 14/24 in silico tools predict a benign outcome for this variant. 3/3 splice prediction tools predict no significant impact on normal splicing. Variant has been reported in ClinVar as Uncertain significance (★).

Frequency

Genomes: 𝑓 0.0000066 ( 0 hom., cov: 33)

Consequence

TERT
NM_198253.3 missense, splice_region

Scores

6
13
Splicing: ADA: 0.00007384
2

Clinical Significance

Uncertain significance criteria provided, single submitter U:1

Conservation

PhyloP100: -0.301

Publications

7 publications found
Variant links:
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]
TERT Gene-Disease associations (from GenCC):
  • pulmonary fibrosis and/or bone marrow failure, Telomere-related, 1
    Inheritance: AD Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG Submitted by: Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Ambry Genetics
  • dyskeratosis congenita, autosomal dominant 2
    Inheritance: AR, AD, SD, Unknown Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG, MODERATE Submitted by: Ambry Genetics, G2P, Genomics England PanelApp, Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), ClinGen, Laboratory for Molecular Medicine
  • acute myeloid leukemia
    Inheritance: AD Classification: STRONG, LIMITED Submitted by: Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Genomics England PanelApp
  • dyskeratosis congenita
    Inheritance: AD Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet
  • Hoyeraal-Hreidarsson syndrome
    Inheritance: AD Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet
  • melanoma, cutaneous malignant, susceptibility to, 9
    Inheritance: AD Classification: LIMITED Submitted by: Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Ambry Genetics

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ACMG classification

Classification was made for transcript

Our verdict: Uncertain_significance. The variant received 3 ACMG points.

PM1
In a hotspot region, there are 2 aminoacids with missense pathogenic changes in the window of +-8 aminoacids around while only 1 benign, 9 uncertain in NM_198253.3
PM2
Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage;
BP4
Computational evidence support a benign effect (MetaRNN=0.3841199).

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene Transcript HGVSc HGVSp Effect Exon rank MANE Protein UniProt
TERTNM_198253.3 linkc.2844C>G p.Ser948Arg missense_variant, splice_region_variant Exon 12 of 16 ENST00000310581.10 NP_937983.2 O14746-1
TERTNM_001193376.3 linkc.2655C>G p.Ser885Arg missense_variant, splice_region_variant Exon 11 of 15 NP_001180305.1 O14746-3
TERTNR_149162.3 linkn.2552C>G splice_region_variant, non_coding_transcript_exon_variant Exon 9 of 13
TERTNR_149163.3 linkn.2516C>G splice_region_variant, non_coding_transcript_exon_variant Exon 9 of 13

Ensembl

Gene Transcript HGVSc HGVSp Effect Exon rank TSL MANE Protein Appris UniProt
TERTENST00000310581.10 linkc.2844C>G p.Ser948Arg missense_variant, splice_region_variant Exon 12 of 16 1 NM_198253.3 ENSP00000309572.5 O14746-1

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes
AF:
0.00000657
AC:
1
AN:
152232
Hom.:
0
Cov.:
33
show subpopulations
Gnomad AFR
AF:
0.00
Gnomad AMI
AF:
0.00
Gnomad AMR
AF:
0.00
Gnomad ASJ
AF:
0.00
Gnomad EAS
AF:
0.000193
Gnomad SAS
AF:
0.00
Gnomad FIN
AF:
0.00
Gnomad MID
AF:
0.00
Gnomad NFE
AF:
0.00
Gnomad OTH
AF:
0.00
GnomAD2 exomes
AF:
0.00000401
AC:
1
AN:
249404
AF XY:
0.00000739
show subpopulations
Gnomad AFR exome
AF:
0.00
Gnomad AMR exome
AF:
0.00
Gnomad ASJ exome
AF:
0.00
Gnomad EAS exome
AF:
0.0000556
Gnomad FIN exome
AF:
0.00
Gnomad NFE exome
AF:
0.00
Gnomad OTH exome
AF:
0.00
GnomAD4 exome
Cov.:
33
GnomAD4 genome
AF:
0.00000657
AC:
1
AN:
152232
Hom.:
0
Cov.:
33
AF XY:
0.0000134
AC XY:
1
AN XY:
74360
show subpopulations
African (AFR)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
41458
American (AMR)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
15288
Ashkenazi Jewish (ASJ)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
3472
East Asian (EAS)
AF:
0.000193
AC:
1
AN:
5190
South Asian (SAS)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
4830
European-Finnish (FIN)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
10624
Middle Eastern (MID)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
316
European-Non Finnish (NFE)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
68048
Other (OTH)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
2094
Allele Balance Distribution
Red line indicates average allele balance
Average allele balance: 0.575
Heterozygous variant carriers
0
0
1
1
2
2
0.00
0.20
0.40
0.60
0.80
0.95
Allele balance

Age Distribution

Genome Het
Variant carriers
0
2
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10
<30
30-35
35-40
40-45
45-50
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>80
Age
ExAC
AF:
0.00000826
AC:
1

ClinVar

Significance: Uncertain significance
Submissions summary: Uncertain:1
Revision: criteria provided, single submitter
LINK: link

Submissions by phenotype

Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis;C3151443:Dyskeratosis congenita, autosomal dominant 2 Uncertain:1
Aug 27, 2021
Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Labcorp
Significance:Uncertain significance
Review Status:criteria provided, single submitter
Collection Method:clinical testing

This sequence change replaces serine with arginine at codon 948 of the TERT protein (p.Ser948Arg). The serine residue is moderately conserved and there is a moderate physicochemical difference between serine and arginine. This variant is present in population databases (rs34062885, ExAC 0.01%). This variant has not been reported in the literature in individuals affected with TERT-related conditions. Algorithms developed to predict the effect of missense changes on protein structure and function (SIFT, PolyPhen-2, Align-GVGD) all suggest that this variant is likely to be tolerated. Experimental studies have shown that this missense change does not substantially affect TERT function (PMID: 23901009). Algorithms developed to predict the effect of sequence changes on RNA splicing suggest that this variant may create or strengthen a splice site. 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. -

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name
Calibrated prediction
Score
Prediction
AlphaMissense
Uncertain
0.52
BayesDel_addAF
Benign
-0.013
T
BayesDel_noAF
Benign
-0.090
CADD
Benign
3.9
DANN
Benign
0.95
DEOGEN2
Benign
0.33
T;.
Eigen
Benign
-1.2
Eigen_PC
Benign
-1.3
FATHMM_MKL
Uncertain
0.76
D
LIST_S2
Benign
0.73
T;T
M_CAP
Uncertain
0.29
D
MetaRNN
Benign
0.38
T;T
MetaSVM
Uncertain
-0.081
T
MutationAssessor
Benign
1.1
L;.
PhyloP100
-0.30
PrimateAI
Uncertain
0.49
T
PROVEAN
Benign
-0.97
N;N
REVEL
Uncertain
0.37
Sift
Benign
0.11
T;T
Sift4G
Benign
0.24
T;T
Polyphen
0.49
P;B
Vest4
0.43
MutPred
0.19
Gain of MoRF binding (P = 0.012);Gain of MoRF binding (P = 0.0124);
MVP
0.72
MPC
1.2
ClinPred
0.32
T
GERP RS
-6.3
Varity_R
0.10
gMVP
0.65
Mutation Taster
=68/32
polymorphism

Splicing

Name
Calibrated prediction
Score
Prediction
dbscSNV1_ADA
Benign
0.000074
dbscSNV1_RF
Benign
0.10
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: rs34062885; hg19: chr5-1260715; API