Description
Variant summary: KCNE1 c.23C>T (p.Ala8Val) results in a non-conservative amino acid change in the encoded protein sequence. Four of five in-silico tools predict a benign effect of the variant on protein function. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.00011 in 251512 control chromosomes. The observed variant frequency is approximately 10.7- fold the estimated maximal expected allele frequency for a pathogenic variant in KCNE1 causing Arrhythmia phenotype (1e-05), suggesting that the variant is benign. However, c.23C>T has been reported in the literature in multiple individuals affected with arrhythmia (e.g. Ohno_2007, Sale_2008, Kapplinger_2009, Fedida_2017, Bennett_2019, Li_2019), including three individuals from one family in which the variant segregated with a Long QT Syndrome (LQTS) phenotype (Li_2019). These data indicate that the variant may be associated with disease. At least three publications report experimental evidence evaluating the electrophysiological effects of the variant on potassium channels and suggest that the variant may alter channel kinetics, however the biological consequences fo these findings are not clear (e.g. Ohno_2007, Sale, 2008, Du_2013). Four other ClinVar submitters (evaluation after 2014) have cited the variant as uncertain significance. Based on the evidence outlined above, the variant was classified as uncertain significance.
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Origin | Affected | Number tested | Tissue | Purpose | Method | Individuals | Allele frequency | Families | Co-occurrences |
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1 | germline | unknown | not provided | not provided | not provided | | not provided | not provided | not provided | not provided |