ClinVar

Description

A variant of uncertain significance has been identified in the RYR2 gene. Although the M317T variant has not been published in association with arrhythmia to our knowledge, it has been observed in at least one heterozygous individual from a cohort of patients referred for clinical whole exome sequencing (Landstrom et al., 2017); however, specific details regarding the indication for genetic testing or the patient's clinical phenotype were not described. This variant has also been observed in 1/9796 (0.010%) alleles from individuals of African ancestry, and in 3/66658 (0.005%) alleles from individuals of Non-Finnish European ancestry in large population cohorts (Lek et al., 2016; 1000 Genomes Consortium et al., 2015; Exome Variant Server). The M317T variant is a non-conservative amino acid substitution, which is likely to impact secondary protein structure as these residues differ in polarity, charge, size and/or other properties. Furthermore, M317T is located in one of the three hot-spot regions of the RYR2 gene, where the majority of pathogenic missense variants occur (Medeiros-Domingo et al., 2009). However, although this substitution occurs at a position that is conserved in mammals, threonine (T) is the wild-type residue at this position in multiple non-mammalian species, Additionally, in silico analysis is inconsistent in its predictions as to whether or not the variant is damaging to the protein structure/function.