rs74162087

Positions:

• chr2-162272383-C-A
• chr2-162272383-C-G
• chr2-162272383-C-T

Variant summary

Our verdict is Likely pathogenic. Variant got 6 ACMG points: 6P and 0B. PM1 PM2 PP3_Moderate

The NM_022168.4(IFIH1):​c.2459G>T​(p.Arg820Leu) variant causes a missense change. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.000000685 in 1,459,302 control chromosomes in the GnomAD database, with no homozygous occurrence. In-silico tool predicts a pathogenic 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. R820H) has been classified as Uncertain significance.

• Frequency:
  • Genomes: not found (cov: 32)
  • Exomes 𝑓: 6.9e-7 (0 hom.)
• Consequence: IFIH1 NM_022168.4 missense
• Clinical Significance: Uncertain significance criteria provided, single submitter U:1
• Conservation: PhyloP100: 5.84

Genes affected

IFIH1 (HGNC:18873): (interferon induced with helicase C domain 1) IFIH1 encodes MDA5 which is an intracellular sensor of viral RNA that triggers the innate immune response. Sensing RNA length and secondary structure, MDA5 binds dsRNA oligonucleotides with a modified DExD/H-box helicase core and a C-terminal domain, thus leading to a proinflammatory response that includes interferons. It has been shown that Coronaviruses (CoVs) as well as various other virus families, are capable of evading the MDA5-dependent interferon response, thus impeding the activation of the innate immune response to infection. MDA5 has also been shown to play an important role in enhancing natural killer cell function in malaria infection. In addition to its protective role in antiviral responses, MDA5 has been implicated in autoimmune and autoinflammatory diseases such as type 1 diabetes, systemic lupus erythematosus, and Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome[provided by RefSeq, Jul 2020]

ACMG classification

Verdict is Likely_pathogenic. Variant got 6 ACMG points.

• PM1: In a hotspot region, there are 4 aminoacids with missense pathogenic changes in the window of +-8 aminoacids around while only 2 benign, 7 uncertain in NM_022168.4
• PM2: Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage
• PP3: MetaRNN computational evidence supports a deleterious effect, 0.866

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	#exon/exons	MANE	UniProt
IFIH1	NM_022168.4	c.2459G>T	p.Arg820Leu	missense_variant	13/16	ENST00000649979.2
IFIH1	XM_047445407.1	c.1742G>T	p.Arg581Leu	missense_variant	12/15

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	#exon/exons	TSL	MANE	Appris	UniProt
IFIH1	ENST00000649979.2	c.2459G>T	p.Arg820Leu	missense_variant	13/16		NM_022168.4	P1

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes Cov.: 32

GnomAD4 exome AF: 6.85e-7 AC: 1 AN: 1459302 Hom.: 0 Cov.: 32 AF XY: 0.00 AC XY: 0 AN XY: 725950

Gnomad4 AFR exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 AMR exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 ASJ exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 EAS exome AF: 0.0000252

Gnomad4 SAS exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 FIN exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 NFE exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 OTH exome AF: 0.00

GnomAD4 genome Cov.: 32

Bravo AF: 0.00000378

ClinVar

Significance: Uncertain significance

Submissions summary: Uncertain:1

Revision: criteria provided, single submitter

Submissions by phenotype

Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome 7;C4225427:Singleton-Merten syndrome 1 Uncertain:1

Uncertain significance, criteria provided, single submitter

clinical testing

Invitae

Mar 19, 2022

This sequence change replaces arginine, which is basic and polar, with leucine, which is neutral and non-polar, at codon 820 of the IFIH1 protein (p.Arg820Leu). This variant is not present in population databases (gnomAD no frequency). 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. Algorithms developed to predict the effect of missense changes on protein structure and function are either unavailable or do not agree on the potential impact of this missense change (SIFT: "Deleterious"; PolyPhen-2: "Probably Damaging"; Align-GVGD: "Class C0"). This variant has not been reported in the literature in individuals affected with IFIH1-related conditions. -

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
AlphaMissense	Uncertain	0.44
BayesDel_addAF	Pathogenic	0.34	D
BayesDel_noAF	Pathogenic	0.25
CADD	Pathogenic	27
DANN	Uncertain	1.0
DEOGEN2	Uncertain	0.56	D;D;.
Eigen	Pathogenic	0.89
Eigen_PC	Pathogenic	0.84
FATHMM_MKL	Pathogenic	0.98	D
M_CAP	Uncertain	0.18	D
MetaRNN	Pathogenic	0.87	D;D;D
MetaSVM	Uncertain	0.44	D
MutationAssessor	Benign	1.8	L;L;.
MutationTaster	Benign	1.0	D;D
PrimateAI	Uncertain	0.54	T
Polyphen		1.0	D;D;.
Vest4		0.85
MutPred		0.60		Loss of methylation at R820 (P = 0.0087);Loss of methylation at R820 (P = 0.0087);.;
MVP		0.83
MPC		0.22
ClinPred		0.99	D
GERP RS		5.6
Varity_R		0.91
gMVP		0.78

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

LitVar

Other links and lift over

dbSNP: rs74162087; hg19: chr2-163128893;