rs867957820

chr7-19116835-G-A

Variant summary

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

The NM_000474.4(TWIST1):c.487C>T(p.Leu163Phe) variant causes a missense change involving the alteration of a non-conserved nucleotide. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.000000684 in 1,461,842 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. L163P) has been classified as Uncertain significance.

• Frequency:
  • Genomes: not found (cov: 32)
  • Exomes 𝑓: 6.8e-7 (0 hom.)
• Consequence: TWIST1 NM_000474.4 missense
• Clinical Significance: Uncertain significance criteria provided, single submitter U:1
• Conservation: PhyloP100: 2.05

Genes affected

TWIST1 (HGNC:12428): (twist family bHLH transcription factor 1) This gene encodes a basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor that plays an important role in embryonic development. The encoded protein forms both homodimers and heterodimers that bind to DNA E box sequences and regulate the transcription of genes involved in cranial suture closure during skull development. This protein may also regulate neural tube closure, limb development and brown fat metabolism. This gene is hypermethylated and overexpressed in multiple human cancers, and the encoded protein promotes tumor cell invasion and metastasis, as well as metastatic recurrence. Mutations in this gene cause Saethre-Chotzen syndrome in human patients, which is characterized by craniosynostosis, ptosis and hypertelorism. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2020]

ACMG classification

Verdict is Likely_pathogenic. Variant got 6 ACMG points.

• PM1: In a hotspot region, there are 3 aminoacids with missense pathogenic changes in the window of +-8 aminoacids around while only 0 benign, 3 uncertain in NM_000474.4
• PM2: Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage
• PP3: MetaRNN computational evidence supports a deleterious effect, 0.917

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	#exon/exons	MANE	UniProt
TWIST1	NM_000474.4	c.487C>T	p.Leu163Phe	missense_variant	1/2	ENST00000242261.6
TWIST1	NR_149001.2	n.802C>T		non_coding_transcript_exon_variant	1/3

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	#exon/exons	TSL	MANE	Appris	UniProt
TWIST1	ENST00000242261.6	c.487C>T	p.Leu163Phe	missense_variant	1/2	1	NM_000474.4	P1
TWIST1	ENST00000354571.5	c.286C>T	p.Leu96Phe	missense_variant, NMD_transcript_variant	1/3	2
TWIST1	ENST00000443687.5	c.91C>T	p.Leu31Phe	missense_variant, NMD_transcript_variant	1/4	4

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes Cov.: 32

GnomAD4 exome AF: 6.84e-7 AC: 1 AN: 1461842 Hom.: 0 Cov.: 32 AF XY: 0.00 AC XY: 0 AN XY: 727228

Gnomad4 AFR exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 AMR exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 ASJ exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 EAS exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 SAS exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 FIN exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 NFE exome AF: 8.99e-7

Gnomad4 OTH exome AF: 0.00

GnomAD4 genome Cov.: 32

ClinVar

Significance: Uncertain significance

Submissions summary: Uncertain:1

Revision: criteria provided, single submitter

Submissions by phenotype

Saethre-Chotzen syndrome;C4551902:TWIST1-related craniosynostosis Uncertain:1

Uncertain significance, criteria provided, single submitter

clinical testing

Invitae

Apr 20, 2018

This sequence change replaces leucine with phenylalanine at codon 163 of the TWIST1 protein (p.Leu163Phe). The leucine residue is highly conserved and there is a small physicochemical difference between leucine and phenylalanine. This variant is not present in population databases (ExAC no frequency). This variant has been reported in individuals affected with craniosynostosis (PMID: 25271085, 29037998). 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: "Deleterious"; PolyPhen-2: "Probably Damaging"; Align-GVGD: "Class C0"). 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	Pathogenic	1.0
BayesDel_addAF	Pathogenic	0.33	D
BayesDel_noAF	Pathogenic	0.24
Cadd	Pathogenic	33
Dann	Uncertain	1.0
DEOGEN2	Pathogenic	0.92	D
Eigen	Uncertain	0.50
Eigen_PC	Uncertain	0.40
FATHMM_MKL	Uncertain	0.82	D
LIST_S2	Uncertain	0.93	D
M_CAP	Pathogenic	0.72	D
MetaRNN	Pathogenic	0.92	D
MetaSVM	Pathogenic	1.1	D
MutationAssessor	Uncertain	2.4	M
MutationTaster	Benign	1.0	D
PrimateAI	Pathogenic	0.87	D
PROVEAN	Uncertain	-4.0	D
REVEL	Pathogenic	0.80
Sift	Pathogenic	0.0	D
Sift4G	Uncertain	0.0030	D
Polyphen		1.0	D
Vest4		0.97
MutPred		0.58		Loss of disorder (P = 0.1695);
MVP		1.0
MPC		2.7
ClinPred		0.99	D
GERP RS		2.9
Varity_R		0.85
gMVP		0.98

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: rs867957820; hg19: chr7-19156458;