rs777728814

Variant summary

Our verdict is Likely pathogenic. The variant received 7 ACMG points: 7P and 0B. PM1PM5PP2PP3PP5

The NM_000394.4(CRYAA):​c.161G>A​(p.Arg54His) variant causes a missense change involving the alteration of a conserved nucleotide. In-silico tool predicts a pathogenic outcome for this variant. Variant has been reported in Lovd as Pathogenic (no stars). Another variant affecting the same amino acid position, but resulting in a different missense (i.e. R54P) has been classified as Likely pathogenic.

Frequency

Genomes: 𝑓 0.000013 ( 0 hom., cov: 9)
Exomes 𝑓: 0.000021 ( 3 hom. )
Failed GnomAD Quality Control

Consequence

CRYAA
NM_000394.4 missense

Scores

5
10
4

Clinical Significance

Not reported in ClinVar

Conservation

PhyloP100: 7.25
Variant links:
Genes affected
CRYAA (HGNC:2388): (crystallin alpha A) Mammalian lens crystallins are divided into alpha, beta, and gamma families. Alpha crystallins are composed of two gene products: alpha-A and alpha-B, for acidic and basic, respectively. Alpha crystallins can be induced by heat shock and are members of the small heat shock protein (HSP20) family. They act as molecular chaperones although they do not renature proteins and release them in the fashion of a true chaperone; instead they hold them in large soluble aggregates. Post-translational modifications decrease the ability to chaperone. These heterogeneous aggregates consist of 30-40 subunits; the alpha-A and alpha-B subunits have a 3:1 ratio, respectively. Two additional functions of alpha crystallins are an autokinase activity and participation in the intracellular architecture. The encoded protein has been identified as a moonlighting protein based on its ability to perform mechanistically distinct functions. Alpha-A and alpha-B gene products are differentially expressed; alpha-A is preferentially restricted to the lens and alpha-B is expressed widely in many tissues and organs. Defects in this gene cause autosomal dominant congenital cataract (ADCC). [provided by RefSeq, Jan 2014]

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ACMG classification

Classification was made for transcript

Our verdict: Likely_pathogenic. The variant received 7 ACMG points.

PM1
In a chain Alpha-crystallin A(1-168) (size 167) in uniprot entity CRYAA_HUMAN there are 44 pathogenic changes around while only 1 benign (98%) in NM_000394.4
PM5
Other missense variant is known to change same aminoacid residue: Variant chr21-43169259-C-T is described in ClinVar as [Pathogenic]. Clinvar id is 68457.Status of the report is criteria_provided_multiple_submitters_no_conflicts, 2 stars.
PP2
Missense variant in the gene, where a lot of missense mutations are associated with disease in ClinVar. The gene has 11 curated pathogenic missense variants (we use a threshold of 10). The gene has 0 curated benign missense variants. Gene score misZ: 0.34778 (below the threshold of 3.09). GenCC associations: The gene is linked to early-onset lamellar cataract, early-onset anterior polar cataract, total early-onset cataract, cataract - microcornea syndrome, early-onset nuclear cataract, cataract 9 multiple types.
PP3
MetaRNN computational evidence supports a deleterious effect, 0.748
PP5
Variant 21-43169260-G-A is Pathogenic according to our data. Variant chr21-43169260-G-A is described in Lovd as [Pathogenic].

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene Transcript HGVSc HGVSp Effect Exon rank MANE Protein UniProt
CRYAANM_000394.4 linkc.161G>A p.Arg54His missense_variant Exon 1 of 3 ENST00000291554.6 NP_000385.1 P02489
LOC107987300XR_007067885.1 linkn.546+1777C>T intron_variant Intron 1 of 2

Ensembl

Gene Transcript HGVSc HGVSp Effect Exon rank TSL MANE Protein Appris UniProt
CRYAAENST00000291554.6 linkc.161G>A p.Arg54His missense_variant Exon 1 of 3 1 NM_000394.4 ENSP00000291554.2 P02489
CRYAAENST00000482775.1 linkn.174G>A non_coding_transcript_exon_variant Exon 1 of 4 5

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes
AF:
0.0000132
AC:
1
AN:
75758
Hom.:
0
Cov.:
9
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:
0.00
Gnomad SAS
AF:
0.00
Gnomad FIN
AF:
0.00
Gnomad MID
AF:
0.00
Gnomad NFE
AF:
0.0000296
Gnomad OTH
AF:
0.00
GnomAD2 exomes
AF:
0.0000121
AC:
3
AN:
248326
AF XY:
0.0000223
show subpopulations
Gnomad AFR exome
AF:
0.00
Gnomad AMR exome
AF:
0.00
Gnomad ASJ exome
AF:
0.00
Gnomad EAS exome
AF:
0.00
Gnomad FIN exome
AF:
0.00
Gnomad NFE exome
AF:
0.0000176
Gnomad OTH exome
AF:
0.00
GnomAD4 exome
Data not reliable, filtered out with message: AS_VQSR
AF:
0.0000207
AC:
15
AN:
724496
Hom.:
3
Cov.:
9
AF XY:
0.0000186
AC XY:
7
AN XY:
376148
show subpopulations
⚠️ The allele balance in gnomAD version 4 Exomes is significantly skewed from the expected value of 0.5.
African (AFR)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
16612
American (AMR)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
35008
Ashkenazi Jewish (ASJ)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
17784
East Asian (EAS)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
37128
South Asian (SAS)
AF:
0.0000141
AC:
1
AN:
70712
European-Finnish (FIN)
AF:
0.0000676
AC:
2
AN:
29566
Middle Eastern (MID)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
2816
European-Non Finnish (NFE)
AF:
0.0000250
AC:
12
AN:
479828
Other (OTH)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
35042
⚠️ The allele balance in gnomAD4 Exomes is highly skewed from 0.5 (p-value = 0.017003), which strongly suggests a high chance of mosaicism in these individuals.
Allele Balance Distribution
Red line indicates average allele balance
Average allele balance: 0.364
Heterozygous variant carriers
0
1
2
2
3
4
0.00
0.20
0.40
0.60
0.80
0.95
Allele balance

Age Distribution

Exome Het
Exome Hom
Variant carriers
0
2
4
6
8
10
<30
30-35
35-40
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50-55
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>80
Age
GnomAD4 genome
Data not reliable, filtered out with message: AS_VQSR
AF:
0.0000132
AC:
1
AN:
75758
Hom.:
0
Cov.:
9
AF XY:
0.00
AC XY:
0
AN XY:
36438
show subpopulations
African (AFR)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
18550
American (AMR)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
8108
Ashkenazi Jewish (ASJ)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
1940
East Asian (EAS)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
3948
South Asian (SAS)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
2656
European-Finnish (FIN)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
5070
Middle Eastern (MID)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
162
European-Non Finnish (NFE)
AF:
0.0000296
AC:
1
AN:
33824
Other (OTH)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
880
Allele Balance Distribution
Red line indicates average allele balance
Average allele balance: 0.625
Heterozygous variant carriers
0
0
1
1
2
2
0.00
0.20
0.40
0.60
0.80
0.95
Allele balance
Alfa
AF:
0.0000659
Hom.:
0
ExAC
AF:
0.0000165
AC:
2

ClinVar

Not reported in ClinVar

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name
Calibrated prediction
Score
Prediction
AlphaMissense
Benign
0.29
BayesDel_addAF
Pathogenic
0.21
D
BayesDel_noAF
Uncertain
0.12
CADD
Pathogenic
27
DANN
Pathogenic
1.0
DEOGEN2
Uncertain
0.56
D
Eigen
Uncertain
0.67
Eigen_PC
Uncertain
0.63
FATHMM_MKL
Uncertain
0.96
D
LIST_S2
Uncertain
0.97
D
M_CAP
Pathogenic
0.45
D
MetaRNN
Pathogenic
0.75
D
MetaSVM
Uncertain
0.63
D
MutationAssessor
Uncertain
2.6
M
PhyloP100
7.3
PrimateAI
Uncertain
0.59
T
PROVEAN
Benign
-2.1
N
REVEL
Pathogenic
0.70
Sift
Uncertain
0.0040
D
Sift4G
Benign
0.079
T
Polyphen
0.95
P
Vest4
0.48
MVP
0.91
MPC
1.3
ClinPred
0.87
D
GERP RS
4.9
PromoterAI
-0.056
Neutral
Varity_R
0.35
gMVP
0.69
Mutation Taster
=30/70
disease causing

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

Other links and lift over

dbSNP: rs777728814; hg19: chr21-44589370; COSMIC: COSV99374880; COSMIC: COSV99374880; API