Description
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. This variant disrupts the p.Asp631 amino acid residue in RET. Other variant(s) that disrupt this residue have been determined to be pathogenic (PMID: 10049754, 16839264, 22274720). This suggests that this residue is clinically significant, and that variants that disrupt this residue are likely to be disease-causing. Experimental studies have shown that this missense change does not substantially affect RET function (PMID: 10049754). An algorithm developed to predict the effect of missense changes on protein structure and function (PolyPhen-2) suggests that this variant is likely to be tolerated. ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 24913). This missense change has been observed in individual(s) with medullary thyroid carcinoma (PMID: 30927507). This variant is present in population databases (rs377767406, gnomAD 0.03%). This sequence change replaces aspartic acid, which is acidic and polar, with asparagine, which is neutral and polar, at codon 631 of the RET protein (p.Asp631Asn).
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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 |