rs80358203

Variant summary

Our verdict is Likely pathogenic. The variant received 9 ACMG points: 9P and 0B. PM1PM2PM5PP2PP3_Moderate

The NM_005267.5(GJA8):​c.68G>A​(p.Arg23Lys) variant causes a missense change involving the alteration of a conserved nucleotide. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.000000684 in 1,461,804 control chromosomes in the GnomAD database, with no homozygous occurrence. In-silico tool predicts a pathogenic outcome for this variant. No clinical diagnostic laboratories have submitted clinical-significance assessments for this variant to ClinVar. Another variant affecting the same amino acid position, but resulting in a different missense (i.e. R23G) has been classified as Uncertain significance.

Frequency

Genomes: not found (cov: 32)
Exomes 𝑓: 6.8e-7 ( 0 hom. )

Consequence

GJA8
NM_005267.5 missense

Scores

4
8
7

Clinical Significance

Not reported in ClinVar

Conservation

PhyloP100: 8.11

Publications

29 publications found
Variant links:
Genes affected
GJA8 (HGNC:4281): (gap junction protein alpha 8) This gene encodes a transmembrane connexin protein that is necessary for lens growth and maturation of lens fiber cells. The encoded protein is a component of gap junction channels and functions in a calcium and pH-dependent manner. Mutations in this gene have been associated with zonular pulverulent cataracts, nuclear progressive cataracts, and cataract-microcornea syndrome. [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2009]
GJA8 Gene-Disease associations (from GenCC):
  • cataract 1 multiple types
    Inheritance: AD, AR Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG, MODERATE Submitted by: Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), G2P, Ambry Genetics
  • cataract - microcornea syndrome
    Inheritance: AD Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet
  • early-onset nuclear cataract
    Inheritance: AD Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet
  • early-onset sutural cataract
    Inheritance: AD Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet
  • pulverulent cataract
    Inheritance: AD Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet
  • total early-onset cataract
    Inheritance: AD Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet

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ACMG classification

Classification was made for transcript

Our verdict: Likely_pathogenic. The variant received 9 ACMG points.

PM1
In a hotspot region, there are 4 aminoacids with missense pathogenic changes in the window of +-8 aminoacids around while only 0 benign, 6 uncertain in NM_005267.5
PM2
Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage;
PM5
Other missense variant is known to change same aminoacid residue: Variant chr1-147908023-G-C is described in ClinVar as Likely_pathogenic. ClinVar VariationId is 8724.Status of the report is criteria_provided_single_submitter, 1 stars.
PP2
Missense variant in the gene, where a lot of missense mutations are associated with disease in ClinVar. The gene has 49 curated pathogenic missense variants (we use a threshold of 10). The gene has 13 curated benign missense variants. Trascript score misZ: -0.35816 (below the threshold of 3.09). GenCC associations: The gene is linked to cataract 1 multiple types, cataract - microcornea syndrome, early-onset nuclear cataract, early-onset sutural cataract, pulverulent cataract, total early-onset cataract.
PP3
MetaRNN computational evidence supports a deleterious effect, 0.883

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene Transcript HGVSc HGVSp Effect Exon rank MANE Protein UniProt
GJA8NM_005267.5 linkc.68G>A p.Arg23Lys missense_variant Exon 2 of 2 ENST00000369235.2 NP_005258.2
GJA8XM_011509417.3 linkc.68G>A p.Arg23Lys missense_variant Exon 1 of 2 XP_011507719.1

Ensembl

Gene Transcript HGVSc HGVSp Effect Exon rank TSL MANE Protein Appris UniProt
GJA8ENST00000369235.2 linkc.68G>A p.Arg23Lys missense_variant Exon 2 of 2 6 NM_005267.5 ENSP00000358238.1

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes
Cov.:
32
GnomAD4 exome
AF:
6.84e-7
AC:
1
AN:
1461804
Hom.:
0
Cov.:
35
AF XY:
0.00
AC XY:
0
AN XY:
727198
show subpopulations
African (AFR)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
33476
American (AMR)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
44724
Ashkenazi Jewish (ASJ)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
26136
East Asian (EAS)
AF:
0.0000252
AC:
1
AN:
39700
South Asian (SAS)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
86254
European-Finnish (FIN)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
53412
Middle Eastern (MID)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
5768
European-Non Finnish (NFE)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
1111940
Other (OTH)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
60394
Allele Balance Distribution
Red line indicates average allele balance
Average allele balance: 0.475
Heterozygous variant carriers
0
0
1
1
2
2
0.00
0.20
0.40
0.60
0.80
0.95
Allele balance
GnomAD4 genome
Cov.:
32
Alfa
AF:
0.00
Hom.:
0
Bravo
AF:
0.00000756

ClinVar

Not reported in ClinVar

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name
Calibrated prediction
Score
Prediction
AlphaMissense
Uncertain
0.36
BayesDel_addAF
Pathogenic
0.31
D
BayesDel_noAF
Pathogenic
0.21
CADD
Benign
22
DANN
Benign
0.75
DEOGEN2
Uncertain
0.53
D
Eigen
Uncertain
0.19
Eigen_PC
Uncertain
0.29
FATHMM_MKL
Uncertain
0.94
D
LIST_S2
Benign
0.78
T
M_CAP
Uncertain
0.21
D
MetaRNN
Pathogenic
0.88
D
MetaSVM
Uncertain
0.60
D
MutationAssessor
Benign
-0.77
N
PhyloP100
8.1
PrimateAI
Pathogenic
0.86
D
PROVEAN
Benign
1.1
N
REVEL
Uncertain
0.64
Sift
Benign
1.0
T
Sift4G
Benign
1.0
T
Polyphen
1.0
D
Vest4
0.88
MutPred
0.76
Gain of methylation at R23 (P = 0.0065);
MVP
0.92
ClinPred
0.62
D
GERP RS
5.0
Varity_R
0.34
gMVP
0.94
Mutation Taster
=65/35
polymorphism

Splicing

Name
Calibrated prediction
Score
Prediction
SpliceAI score (max)
0.010
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: rs80358203; hg19: chr1-147380150; API