rs886039128

Positions:

• chr18-31079990-C-T

Variant summary

Our verdict is Pathogenic. Variant got 16 ACMG points: 16P and 0B. PVS1 PM2 PP3_Strong PP5_Moderate

The NM_024422.6(DSC2):​c.1521-1G>A variant causes a splice acceptor change involving the alteration of a conserved nucleotide. The variant was absent in control chromosomes in GnomAD project. In-silico tool predicts a pathogenic outcome for this variant. 3/3 splice prediction tools predicting alterations to normal splicing. Variant has been reported in ClinVar as Likely pathogenic (★).

• Frequency: Genomes: not found (cov: 33)
• Consequence: DSC2 NM_024422.6 splice_acceptor
• Scores: Splicing: ADA: 1.000
• Clinical Significance: Likely pathogenic criteria provided, single submitter P:1
• Conservation: PhyloP100: 7.44

Genes affected

DSC2 (HGNC:3036): (desmocollin 2) This gene encodes a member of the desmocollin protein subfamily. Desmocollins, along with desmogleins, are cadherin-like transmembrane glycoproteins that are major components of the desmosome. Desmosomes are cell-cell junctions that help resist shearing forces and are found in high concentrations in cells subject to mechanical stress. This gene is found in a cluster with other desmocollin family members on chromosome 18. Mutations in this gene are associated with arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia-11, and reduced protein expression has been described in several types of cancer. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Feb 2015]

ACMG classification

Verdict is Pathogenic. Variant got 16 ACMG points.

• PVS1: Splicing variant, LoF is a know mechanism of disease, Cryptic splice site detected, with MaxEntScore 4.2, offset of 26, new splice context is: gaaattaactgatccaacAGggt. Cryptic site results in frameshift change. If cryptic site found is not functional and variant results in exon loss, it results in frameshift change.
• PM2: Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage
• PP3: Splicing scoreres supports a deletorius effect: Scorers claiming Pathogenic: dbscSNV1_ADA, dbscSNV1_RF, max_spliceai. No scorers claiming Uncertain. No scorers claiming Benign.
• PP5: Variant 18-31079990-C-T is Pathogenic according to our data. Variant chr18-31079990-C-T is described in ClinVar as [Likely_pathogenic]. Clinvar id is 264340.Status of the report is criteria_provided_single_submitter, 1 stars.

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	#exon/exons	MANE	UniProt
DSC2	NM_024422.6	c.1521-1G>A		splice_acceptor_variant		ENST00000280904.11
DSC2	NM_001406506.1	c.1092-1G>A		splice_acceptor_variant
DSC2	NM_001406507.1	c.1092-1G>A		splice_acceptor_variant
DSC2	NM_004949.5	c.1521-1G>A		splice_acceptor_variant

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	#exon/exons	TSL	MANE	Appris	UniProt
DSC2	ENST00000280904.11	c.1521-1G>A		splice_acceptor_variant		1	NM_024422.6	P1
DSC2	ENST00000251081.8	c.1521-1G>A		splice_acceptor_variant		1
DSC2	ENST00000648081.1	c.1092-1G>A		splice_acceptor_variant
DSC2	ENST00000682357.1	c.1092-1G>A		splice_acceptor_variant

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes Cov.: 33

GnomAD4 exome Cov.: 33

GnomAD4 genome Cov.: 33

ClinVar

Significance: Likely pathogenic

Submissions summary: Pathogenic:1

Revision: criteria provided, single submitter

Submissions by phenotype

Cardiovascular phenotype Pathogenic:1

Likely pathogenic, criteria provided, single submitter

clinical testing

Ambry Genetics

Sep 10, 2015

The c.1521-1G>A intronic variant results from a G to A substitution one nucleotide upstream from coding exon 11 of the DSC2 gene. This nucleotide position is highly conserved in available vertebrate species. Using the BDGP and ESEfinder splice site prediction tools, this alteration is predicted to abolish the native acceptor site; however, direct evidence is unavailable. Alterations that disrupt the canonical splice site are expected to cause aberrant splicing, resulting in an abnormal protein or a transcript that is subject to nonsense-mediated mRNA decay, and splice and other loss-of-function variants have been previously described in the DSC2 gene (Heuser A, Am J Hum Genet. 2006; 79(6):1081-8). As such, the c.1521-1G>A variant is classified as likely pathogenic. -

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
BayesDel_addAF	Pathogenic	0.63	D
BayesDel_noAF	Pathogenic	0.32
CADD	Pathogenic	34
DANN	Uncertain	1.0
Eigen	Pathogenic	1.1
Eigen_PC	Pathogenic	1.0
FATHMM_MKL	Pathogenic	0.99	D
MutationTaster	Benign	1.0	D;D
GERP RS		5.6

Splicing

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
dbscSNV1_ADA	Pathogenic	1.0
dbscSNV1_RF	Pathogenic	0.94
SpliceAI score (max)		0.99		Details are displayed if max score is > 0.2
DS_AG_spliceai		0.44		Position offset: -27
DS_AL_spliceai		0.99		Position offset: -1

Find out detailed SpliceAI scores and Pangolin per-transcript scores at spliceailookup.broadinstitute.org

Publications

LitVar

Other links and lift over

dbSNP: rs886039128; hg19: chr18-28659956;